I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.

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

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression.

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