Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens..

Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought….

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension..

Exuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again..

But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete….

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening..

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write..

I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are g….

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74).

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a pers….

Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep….

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide..

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives o….

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was d….

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe..

Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine….

the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was o….

It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a vastly complex web of reasons; and, of….

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious..

One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest..

Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, t….