I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

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.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.