When you are young spend at least 6 months to one year living as poor as you can， owning as little as you possibly can， eating beans and rice in a tiny room or tent， to experience what your “worst” lifestyle might be. That way any time you have to risk something in the future you won’t be afraid of the worst case scenario.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

To write is to resist the forces of forgetting.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

"In Edinburgh, the shadows are long, and the secrets are deeper."