“No one will ever admire you for being someone else.”

“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”

“Being committed or loyal to someone doesn’t mean you won’t ever be attracted to someone else. It means you won’t physically act upon the attraction.”

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

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”

“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”