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I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.