I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.

Well, evolution's just a theory.' And, I'm thinking to myself, 'Well, thank goodness gravity's a law.'

We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic.

I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.

You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.