She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

If I give up nine runs on nine hits, I tip my hat.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

You might be a redneck if Santa Claus refuses to let your kids sit in his lap.

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I fell in love with Africa while I was there.