I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I still remember the moment. I ordered a chicken salad and it tasted like chalk. I knew I was depressed. And I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I did not want to sit on the roof, though I was also aware that if I didn’t allow myself the relief… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own theatricality and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own experiences, and I usually end… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
