That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

If I am your rainbow, then you are my pot of gold.

The psychological effects of the sun are strange: it had not yet appeared over the horizon and we already felt comforted, just imagining the heat it would bring.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

I just want to get into the action. And voice-over work is all action.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

I liked the movie Splash a lot when I was little. I think we taped it when it was on TV, and then would watch the movie fairly often.

I am dying of hunger.

One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need