chapter 1, page 1, paragraph 2

I'm telling you this story because I believe it's important to learn from our mistakes. We all seem to just run our lives in the same general direction, there's no room for individuality. That's what I had always struggled with most in life. I had to find out who I was and what made me special, all before the age of eighteen. I took to art subjects in school, because that what I thought it was, art is individuality right? No, not when you're being graded on it, it can never be yours if you're doing it for someone else. That's what I learnt over the last few months. You've just got to ignore what everybody else says and go your own path.