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Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

I am crying over the elusive nature of love.

At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24.

Depression gave me extreme perspicacity; rather than skin, it was as if I had only thin gauze bandages to shield me from everything I saw.

I am a hopeless, shameless flirt.

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.

Oh, Ma, you're looking at all the trees, and I'm not even in the forest.

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

I am not a nostalgic person.

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

I dont want to die, i dont want to live either.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

I am baffled by men. When they want me, I don't want them; when I want them, they don't want me.

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

I'm not crying because you're mean. I just can't imagine how incredibly painful it must be to be you.

If you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

Happiness is a choice, you've got to work towards it

Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

All I do is go to the movies.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.

Occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

My life's actually been quite dull; it's not all that glamorous.

That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Whether the emotion is true or truly wished for, anytime anything resembling love comes my way, it makes a fool of me. It

I dont know if im running because i'm scared or if i'm scared because i'm running.

What makes you think i'm so rich you can steal my heart and i won't feel a thing?

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

Feminism is a good venue for getting yourself across as much as for getting your point across.

And I want out of this life on drugs.

You don't need an excuse to be depressed.

If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.

For all of my life I have needed more.

If only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Bitch: In praise of difficult women.

I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic
I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Sometimes someone will be standing in front of me, and already I feel him walking away. It's only a matter of time, so what's the point?

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

All I want to talk about is the oncoming apocalypse in my brain.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

He seemed a fool-everyone who didn't feel like me seems a fool.

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

Years of depression have robbed me of that - well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Okay so enough about me..now what do you think about me?

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I'd like.

Very early in my life it was already too late.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

Pass the pills and fancy plants/ Give us this day our daily trance.

Time passes slowly, or too fast, or it makes no difference.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I'm being drowned by some kind of black wave.