even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Gladstone, a Member of Parliament, to Benjamin Disraeli, "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends sir," said Disraeli, "on whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy."
-Walter Kerr

I was born weird -- this terrible compulsion to behave normally is the result of childhood trauma.