Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Prophecy is nothing but only just an estimation based on regularities of the Nature.

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

Chimpanzees will eat a little bit of meat. But, they never eat dairy products, and no other animal would do that.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

There are not enough poems in praise of bed.