I was mad at him for cutting the flowers — like really mad — until I noticed the one on his lapel and then I sighed because what a fucking neat and direct way to talk about growing up, Shel Silverstein.
"And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway."