No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination..

I think the experience of depression that I most think remains true throughout the years is it's very isolating. That to me is its strongest quality.….

Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others excep….

There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on..

Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten….

Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences..

How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other peopl….

It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious ….

I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People who never suff….

Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight..

Everyone lies about sex, more or less, to themselves if not to others, to others if not to themselves, exaggerating its importance or minimizing its ….

It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it….

My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world..

I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do they have some core that wit….