rejection
To the young artist who may be reading this: consider the possibility that you might actually be lucky when you get rejected from stuff. Because of this streak of what appeared to be bad luck, I fell into my life as it is today.
Interview by Nica de la Torre, BOMB magazine, Issue 117, Fall 2011.
Developing an adequate response to rejection, neither defensive nor sentimental, lies at the heart of any serious attempt at sanity.
Twitter, 9:22 AM Sept 9, 2010.