“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”
“I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.”
“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”
“I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.”