It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend. — Steve Lopez Causes Copy Share Image
Without a mission and a sense of whom you write for, you aren't worth reading. — Steve Lopez Goals Copy Share Image
“Your violin has only two strings,” I say. “You’re missing the other two.” Yes, he says. He’s well aware. “All I want… — Steve Lopez Imperfection Copy Share Image
Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry. — Steve Lopez Coming out Copy Share Image
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen,… — Steve Lopez Becoming Copy Share Image
It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror. — Steve Lopez Interesting Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a… — Steve Lopez Mental illness Copy Share Image
.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.. — Steve Lopez Challenges Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It's a… — Steve Lopez Mental illness Copy Share Image
“Learning how to play an instrument has always been near the top of my to-do list, but what are the chances now?… — Steve Lopez Music making Copy Share Image
“You're only as good or bad as your latest attempt to make some connection with the world...” — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
“If you put your very existence into it, your sensitivity and humanity, it makes for a sound distinctly yours” — Steve López Empathy Copy Share Image
Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the… — Steve Lopez Day and night Copy Share Image
“I feel jerked around. I feel sympathetic. I feel abused. It's almost harder to see Nathaniel on the good days than the… — Steve Lopez Good day Copy Share Image
“I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often… — Steve Lopez Compassion Copy Share Image
