I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.

The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.