“You can exorcise the demons of schizophrenics who perceive that there’s something foreign inside them. But it’s much harder with depressed people… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud’s work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. — 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
