The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again. — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea. — Michael Redhill Copy Share
No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down. — Michael Redhill Copy Share
I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist. — Michael Redhill Copy Share
Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate. — Michael Redhill Copy Share
I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that. — Michael Redhill Copy Share
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I… — Michael Redhill Copy Share
