Self-involved, not entirely stupid, blind to your own deficiencies. You’ll do well.

I have full confidence in you, said nobody ever, to her.

Manage to find someone willing to pay you for being some semblance of who you are, and you might survive.

He grew up with few expectations. He accepted tolerance in place of love, and survival as success.

Things seem to be picking up at the shop.
Three jobs today.
Total billable hours: .75.
Thy will be done.

Dinner with an old friend and his younger wife. She is lovely and shy, and in compensation you are more outgoing than usual. As you launch into another story about your friend as you knew him in college, a look passes between them and he squeezes her hand. You realize that her reticence is actually boredom and that dinner is, for them, an obligation to be endured as quickly and painlessly as possible.

51/49, 50% of the time.

 She was rich in spirit, but mainly just rich.

Messages on walls or mirrors, invariably perceived as more urgent than those typed on a computer.

Graphic design: a study of margins.

Some things should not be photographed or described, lest they be reduced to photographs or descriptions.

Whatever; if you say so. I grew up poor and afraid. I believe you more than I believe myself.