From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.

If you can get a young person to the age of 18, 19 or 20 and they have not begun to smoke, it is unlikely they ever will.

...класовий ворог, це в нас на кожному заводі й у кожній установі ніби штатна посада, яку хтось та повинен займати.
Боронити людину, визнану за класового ворога, нікому не радиться.
(З життя будинку)

I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn't quite see that.