But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here's how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn't deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It's not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it's about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

It's almost as if our society values opinion over knowledge.