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

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.

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.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

It always came down to his freaking pride.

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

I don't want what I can't have. I don't want to want what I can't have. -Nate

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

When I believe in something, I support it fully. On that note, I totally don't support Velcro shoes.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.