They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

All I do is go to the movies.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.

Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.