When you are 20 years old, you are immature.
I always knew I would adopt. Always.
I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live. "
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.
I feel like a young man of 15.
Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.