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My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.

My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.

Some people found it difficult to understand my relationship with my father, but that may have been because they couldn't get beyond their relationship with their own parents.