“Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.”

“The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.”

“A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.”

“Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.”

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.”