I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I got to a nine-hour surgery, I lost lots of body parts and rearranged, I got really months of infection that I lost 30 pounds. But the idea of pumping poison into my bloodstream just - I couldn't, I couldn't.

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

I think we have a tendency in America to keep dividing ourselves, separating ourselves from each other.