You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.

Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.