Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.