Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it's very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they've lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it's most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

Relationships are never chance events.