He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.