And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino …

- Andrew Solomon

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

- Andrew Solomon

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

- Andrew Solomon

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triu…

- Andrew Solomon

When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the…

- Andrew Solomon

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

- Andrew Solomon

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

- Andrew Solomon

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away…

- Andrew Solomon

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yours…

- Andrew Solomon