I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.

Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.

When I talk with people, I don't even see what they are wearing . . . No, I recognize it if it's something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.

Your faith is only as strong as the test it survives

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.