I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.