“Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows”

“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”

“Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.”

“Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.”

“My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.”