“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to unders...”

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I w...”

“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I pos...”

“Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”

“Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on...”

“People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t”