“Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.”

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists”

“(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.”

“It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else.”

“The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”