If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.