I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.