The springtime peak of productivity that is shown in the works of many writers and artists, as well as by those in both Lombroso's study and my own, fits with popular conceptions about the blossoming...
The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.
The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.
Thank you for a lovely weekend.They tell me it rained.
Th Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
Some part of me instinctively reached out, and in an odd way understood this pain, never imagining that I would someday look in the mirror and see their sadness and insanity in my own eyes.
People who aren't as exuberant as you are get really irritated with you.
Others, the subject of this book, are likewise privy to their unconscious streams of thought, but they must contend with unusually tumultuous and unpredictable emotions as well. The integration of the...
One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may...
Named for his smooth and slithery essence, the Oyster was a senior professor: he was patronizing, smug, and had all of the intellectual and emotional complexity of, as one might expect, a small mollus...
My mind was flying high that day, courtesy of whatever witches’ brew of neurotransmitters God had programmed into my genes, and I filled page after page with what I am sure, thinking back on it, were...
Later, after Christmas carols and a nightcap of mulled ale in front of the fire, Mole reflects on how much he has missed the warmth and security of what he once had known, all of those friendly things...
It was a tribute to my ability to present an image so at variance with what I felt that few noticed I was in any way different.
It is true that I hadwanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting havingbeen born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have beenborn, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine...
It has been said that grief is a kind of madness. I disagree. There is a sanity to grief, in its just proportion of emotion to cause, that madness does not have. I know madness well, but I understood...
In a state of exuberance, judgment is put on hold-but is not turned off completely. In hypomania judgment is napping, but still wakes up periodically to check things out. In mania, judgment is out lik...
I remember sitting in his office a hundred times during those grim months and each time thinking, What on earth can he say that will make me feel better or keep me alive? Well, there never was anythin...
I focused on the questions and stopped seeing the body. As has been true a thousand times since, my curiosity and temperament had taken me to places I was not really able to handle emotionally, but th...