You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.