I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

