“Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.”

“People get the wrong idea about me, they think I'm depressed or something - I'm not depressed. I don't wish that I was dead, I wish... that you were all dead.”

“I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.”

“I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.”

“Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.”

“So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.”

“i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people”

“I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.”

“I wish sometimes that I had twenty bodies, that at twenty places at once I might publish the saving name of Jesus.”

“Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.”