By coming out to ourselves, we free up the energy we spent keeping a part of ourselves hidden.

Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.