Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

You don't want to be victimized by your lesser talents.

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.