Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

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

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

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.

Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.