I'm one of those lucky people with high self-esteem. I see myself as smart and creative and likeable and good and, honestly, even nice to look at. I think I go

I'm one of those lucky people with high self-esteem. I see myself as smart and creative and likeable and good and, honestly, even nice to look at. I think I got to be this way by growing up in a very loving household, but I think how I maintain it in the face of my regular missteps and fuckups is by not judging myself (or anyone, really) based on achievement or success. Millions of very smart people have been spectacularly wrong. Millions of creative people have no audience. Some people who I like very much are unpopular or have very few friends. I've known very beautiful people who have been very unlucky in love.