Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.