You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.

The pieces are so colorful. He told me, 'These are the memories of my life growing up.' They're all about Hispanic family life and culture.

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

As soon as you stop being yourself you become anybody.

But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carry with him when he set out that morning. Things of the past, like the fragile boy he had been, had no place on a man’s journey towards his future.