What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.
I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.
I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
Never claim credit for anything. 'Cause you can't righteously do that. There's luck and grace and accident.
Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.
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