"So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free."
— Dr. Robbins (AKA Tom Robbins), from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. I picked up this book for a dollar at a thrift store, took it to the beach and got a bad sunburn because I couldn't stop reading it.