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I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.