I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her?" What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.