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When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.