Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

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

The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.