Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice.

If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

[Humans] don't just survive; they discover; they create. ... I mean, just look at what they do with food!

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

Nature inspires me continually. Today, I can look out my window and see the entire world covered with snow. It's like Narnia under the White Witch.

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.