“I feel jerked around. I feel sympathetic. I feel abused. It's almost harder to see Nathaniel on the good days than the bad, because you let yourself be deceived into thinking he's going to stay that way...And I can't just… — 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
