Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams. — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend. — Steve Lopez Copy Share
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading. — Steve Lopez Copy Share
“Your violin has only two strings,” I say. “You’re missing the other two.” Yes, he says. He’s well aware. “All I want to do… — Steve Lopez Copy Share
Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry. — Steve Lopez Copy Share
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or… — Steve Lopez Copy Share
It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror. — Steve Lopez Copy Share
“Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a subtle but… — Steve Lopez Copy Share
.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.. — Steve Lopez Copy Share
“Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a subtle but… — Steve Lopez Copy Share
“Learning how to play an instrument has always been near the top of my to-do list, but what are the chances now? There's little… — Steve Lopez Copy Share
“You're only as good or bad as your latest attempt to make some connection with the world...” — Steve Lopez Copy Share
“If you put your very existence into it, your sensitivity and humanity, it makes for a sound distinctly yours” — Steve López Copy Share
Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the… — Steve Lopez Copy Share
