“Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.”

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”

“When you’ve found the right one - when you see him, when you’re with him - you’ll feel like you’re coming home.”

“What you’re really doing is trying to win back what you’ve lost by going all in. It’s shitty poker, and even worse as a battle strategy.”

“Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.”

“You may think you’ve got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you’ve already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you’re not what you used to be.”

“Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they’re not doing it right you’ve got to speak up and show them and if you still don’t get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.”

“Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them.”

“You know, once you’ve stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.”

“Sometimes it feels like you’re losing, but even when you’re losing, you’re getting something.”