“Because adventure starts the moment I leave my door.”

"Thunder is contrary. Thunder can intuit, and her action is the music caused by lightning. She comes because we ask, and that's why falling apart is holy."

"When I mark myself with ink, or when I have that done to me, I am taking some part of my skin back."

If I cry, I'll cry alone. But if we laugh, we can do it together.

Love heals. Love heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

We had arrived, we had survived the nightmare, and now us lucky ones had found friends to help us carry on.

When I wrote, it was so easy to be happy.

Trying to forget damaged me the most.

I don’t believe the secret of being happy is living a life free of problems. It’s about being able to smile despite the hardships.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear.

Swimming is the best distraction.

If he was supposed to die, he hoped to die swiftly to spare the innocent.

It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.

It makes for an interesting performance, attempting to both find yourself and lose yourself onstage.

My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.