People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.