I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

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

I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

Without science, there would be no such hope.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.