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

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.

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.

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

When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.

As an activist, you gotta pick something that's particularly interesting to you and go for it - because there's no shortage of things to do. And it's sort of a long-term commitment. Activism is for life.

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