Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.