" Don’t forget to fall in love with yourself first. "

" Aging, I realized a few things. You can have a love affair that lasts forever, with your work, your art, the beauty of tulips in buckets or bugs raining in your watermelon plate in June. Usually, these are deep and undeniable liaisons but I could never compare them to the deepness of basic, comfortable silences between two people in the same room, the secrecy of inside jokes that are born and raised in a human relationship or with the shameless erotica that you can only get after sharing time, space and memories with a person. Aging, I realize under all these layers I haven’t changed at all since I was fifteen. "