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

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

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.

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

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.

When kindness is here, hatred disappears. When hatred is here, kindness can never enter.

With organization comes empowerment.

the gravity of wound to fist

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing with you in the summer rain

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

Great players make great plays.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.