My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.
Chaos is the penance for leisure.
I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.
I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.