Despair is part of love.

I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.