"Writing is an act of courage - to put your inner world on display."
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
I think we all have a little bit of that fear of failure, and that's what drives us to succeed.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.