The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from.

Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?

Wanting and wishing are very different

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

Some things are more than we can understand.

Pardon the deserter; he is weak and will return to the lesson later on.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.

We must die to become true human beings.

Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.