“Because when you’re SHAMELESS, you take up space whenever you feel like it (mostly when you’re alone, not in a rude way!) and you also say what you mean, always, and you also kiss your dog on the face and call her ‘Nooogoo’ randomly and you feel how much you love her, the big dumb idiot, and you just savor your own weird, fucked-up animal self.

You love your animal self, and you love other animal selves around you. You don’t attach a fucking MORAL to everything.”

“When you learn to live with uncertainty, when you learn to surrender a little, when you learn to see yourself as beautiful and worthy even as your life seems crumpled and wrong, when you own exactly what you are — whatever the fuck you are! — without trying to explain it or sell it or cover it up, you become formidable and effortlessly impressive. Practice saying ‘I don’t fucking know!’ with humility, with humor.”