I'm just being me. If I'm not enough, I don't know what to tell you. I'm not going to apologize about it.
I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.
I'm a scamp. I don't deny it. I like myself.
No one wants to read an apologetic book.
In my experience, when you're writing, you want the truth, and you don't want to be apologetic in any way. But there is something in writing, the complexity of it, that works against that aim.
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
It occurred to me that cats were being held back a little bit. I thought, 'I'll give the cat human thoughts and feelings but not be apologetic for it. That would be very catlike.'
I'm a mercenary. That's what people hire me for, and I don't apologize for it.
