My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel.
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.