Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.