I'm not really the nurturer type.
Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.
If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
I take the academic education as seriously as the physical education. That's why I tell parents that the schools can't do it all themselves. The parents can't come home from work and turn on the TV. That's not being a good parent.
It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.
Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them.
If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.