You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

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.

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.

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

If you don't like the situation, if you are afraid and can't deal with it, nothing wrong with your legs, get out of there.

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my Criminal Minds family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

There are no take-backs—just as in life. You must think before you move.