"I am so grateful to this day that I took the risk and called her and got the rejection because I got my answer," he says. "Even when you fail, failure is an answer." He adds: "The road's not taken that we should have tried ... those are probably the ones to really worry about in the moment"
Is it worse to regret something you’ve done, or something you haven’t done? What’s the upside of rejection? And which great American short-story writer convinced Angela to quit driving?