As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
“I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.”
“Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.”