Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.
Andrew SolomonIt's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
Andrew SolomonThe absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
Andrew SolomonThe campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
Andrew SolomonI think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.
Andrew Solomon