I have to admit, I think I'm far more shallow in my writing than I am in real-life. Helps to play things up a bit, but don't tell my readers...

One thing I'll never do, however, is pretend to be someone I'm not, in my works and in real life. I'll never be a white-knight type figure. I'm not here to save the world. I'm only here to save a little portion of it for myself. Tending to my garden, as Voltaire said...