In hitchhiking as in so many other departments, the surest way not to get something is to need it.
“I think of myself as someone who thinks largely through writing. Thus I write more than most people, and I write in many different forms. I think of myself as the kind of person who writes, rather than as one kind of writer or another. That’s about the closest I come to categorizing myself as one or another kind of artist.”
Samuel R. Delany