I haven't begun to fight. I mean think.

Drink. Whatever. [he takes a sip from his empty bottle- then nods enthusiastically]

Yes - well I hadn't thought of novels - because it's all true. All of it. Me, good for nothing Stede, an actual pirate on an actual adventure in the actual sea. Sailing with Blackbeard of all people...and it's all because I went for it-- left everything I knew and charged ahead, pistols blazing.

That's what life is all about, isn't it?