I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
“I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.”
“It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.”