I'm eighteen. I live in St. Louis, MO. I lost my mom March 2005 and I'll be graduating in May. I live with my step-dad and half sister. I'm half Chinese and half American. I like the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd and my only purpose is to paint. I'm angry with the world but that's never changed. I wear glasses and I like purple and green. I don't fit in anywhere but I like company. My real father was a bad man and my mom is surely an angel. I have an unhappy history but I hate not smiling. My solace is writing. Have I painted a nice enough picture of myself for you yet?

"Of those who say nothing, few are silent."
- Thomas Neill

"Life isn't long enough for love and art."
- W. Somerset Maugham

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams

"I shut my eyes in order to see."
- Paul Gauguin

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe

"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."
- George Bernard Shaw