Sunday Sentence

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
I feel like the older I get, the better friends I am with myself.
Source: Ottessa Moshfegh, in conversation with Kristine McKenna (Harper’s, April 2016)
Ah, would that were so!
It’s so for me, I’m happy/relieved to say.
What is your secret? I find myself increasingly self-critical as I age, as I look back upon the past. Consider yourself blessed!
I guess the secret was being extremely self-critical for the first 30-something years. I do consider myself blessed. Very!