I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

Every organization does good and bad things.

I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

Depression means that you have no point of view.

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.