I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Now, it's not that I think that being gay is the most amazing, wonderful thing in the world, but I have a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people often ask me when I came out, generalising from the experience of many young people who announce themselves to the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world. — 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
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the… — 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
