Your Choice Of Armor Was Your Intellect.

Then I Realized That Secrecy Is Actually To The Detriment Of My Own Peace Of Mind And Self, And That I Could Still Sustain My Belief In Privacy And Be Authentic And Transparent At The Same Time. It Was A Pretty Revelatory Moment, And There's Been A Liberating Force That's Come From It.

When Someone Has A Very Urgent Response, I Think It Just Means That It's Triggering Something In Them That They May Not Necessarily Want To Think Or Talk About - Which I See As A Positive Thing.

What's That Line From Ts Eliot? To Arrive At The Place Where You Started, But To Know It For The First Time. I'm Able To Write About A Breakup From A Different Place. Same Brokenness. Same Rock-bottom. But A Little More Informed, Now I'm Older. Thank God For Growing Up.

In A Perfect World, There Would Be No Censorship, Because There Would Be No Judgement. I Find The Hypocritical Aspect Disconcerting, To Say The Least. We Can Show People Being Murdered On Television, But I'm Not Able To Say "chickenshit" In Public. At The Same Time, I Understand That People Are Afraid. Because I Think Censorship Is About Fear. It's Just Fear Being Projected Onto Art.

When I'm Really, Really Angry, If I'm Privileged Enough To Be Next To Someone Who Can Hold My Anger, I'll Definitely Take Them Up On Holding The Bucket.