“May you make many of them along the way. May you make them left, right, and center, and when you do, may you never claim to have profited from them. May you never ever chalk them up to lessons learned or experience gained or any of that trite, commonplace bullshit. Just enjoy your idiocy, cry about it and bask in it, and be glad you are lucky enough to have a life that has room for some stupidity and lolling about and kicking around, because, you know, that’s how it goes, and that is what it means to be living.”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman