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

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

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

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

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!