From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!

It was one of those rare occasions when the true story is even more strange and exciting than the wild rumours.

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

For your information, I am NOT overreacting. I'm REACTING. That's different. It's important to react when you're pissed off.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.