Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

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.

I'm very confident. Even when I read people saying horrible stuff about my weight.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live?

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.

The greatest enemy to love is your pride

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.