Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

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.

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

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.