“Art is worth it because it makes you more courageous, more full, more fed. Art is worth it because it forms you into a complete fucking freak, the kind of freak who knows what she wants from life, the kind of freak who isn’t impatient and selfish around other people, the kind of freak who feeds herself enough that she has a lot to bring to the table with others. Art makes you more capable of bravery, more capable of love, more capable of patience. Art makes you tolerant of pain and sadness and regret. Art reminds you that caring way too much about something or someone is the whole point of being alive.”
— Heather Havrilesky