如果妳要過好這輩子,大叔建議做的第一件事情是「經濟獨立」,因為現實就是你要有金錢來支持夢想,而現實就像是狗屎; Friends 六人行的名言:「Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You're gonna love it. 歡迎來到現實的世界,它爛透了,但你將會愛上它!」
失敗代表了摒除不必要的事物,我不再自我欺騙、乾脆忠於自我,投注所有心力完成唯一重要的工作。要是我以前在其他地方成功了,那麼我也許永遠不會有這樣的決心,投身於這個我自信真正屬於我的領域。我重獲自由了!因為我最大的恐懼雖然降臨了,而我還活著,我還有個可愛的女兒,還有台老舊的打字機和偉大的構思。曾經跌落深邃的谷底,卻變成日後重生深厚的基礎。 Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea.