It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.

I belong deeply to myself.

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.