It was natural that I should take chances; but he was a man whose youth was past, a stockbroker with a position of respectability, a wife and two children.
After all, if he had any talent I should be the first to encourage it. I wouldn't have minded sacrifices. I'd much rather be married to a painter than to a stockbroker.
When I was 5, I knew that my dad was a stockbroker but I did not know what a stockbroker was, yet I walked around telling people " I'm gonna be a stockbroker when I grow up."