And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

Credibility is what it is ALL about.

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

I was taught to work hard and to be honest, and that's what I try to do, so that's it.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.