As a dream comes true, it falls flat.
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
I really - as I said, I wanted to be President of the United States. It didn't turn out that way.
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.
I've always aspired to Cary Grant's level of coolness and failed miserably.
There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
