As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

Hope is only the love of life.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.

Everyone else has a work party, 'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.

I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.

The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.

I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.

The best way to reduce emissions and pollution is not through partisan political theater but through developing consensus on areas that will bring about effectual change.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.