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

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'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.

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

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.

A good man can become a nightmare if he continues to pay attention to wrong counsel.

Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation.

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.