I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.
Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.
we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.