It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

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.

Take accountability... Blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships drown.

The lake was no longer frozen

Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

I like pieces that are cool and simple. I try to wear really cute things, but they just don't suit me at all.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.