“My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.”
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
