Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.
Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers. . . Restlessness and discontent are vital things. . . Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.
When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.
It's good for young people to be angry about something.
I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
I am not in love But I'm open to persuasion.