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

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night's rest.

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

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

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