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I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.

I'm an amateur.

What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so, that being so, you're already doing something in a thoroughly individual and idiosyncratic way anyway.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.