In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

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.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

[On The Netherlands:] ... the entire country is a kind of saturated sponge.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.