"When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice."

"I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else."

"The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously."

"I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."