We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.