Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

If one maintains the intent of, ‘no one should have the slightest difficulty on my account’, then his work will be considered to be done.

Eternity is to us as time, the age to come, the continuation, the manifestation, and perfection of our present and true existence.

I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

I come home from work early one day, and I see a guy jogging down the street in his underwear. I ask him, "Why are you jogging in your underwear?" He says, "You came home from work early".