Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
Andrew SolomonI have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
Andrew SolomonPeople … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.
Andrew SolomonThe campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
Andrew SolomonThe 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.
Andrew Solomon