David Foster Wallace

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.

You may feel depressed, but it can’t be so depressing that you can’t move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they are elated about expressing their depression!

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

I use the world as my therapy – as my therapist.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

My brain and my heart are really important to me, I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?

Not only is it a part of my life, I need to bring awareness to the severity of Lyme disease.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

I think Viagra is wonderful if you need it, if you have medical issues, if you’ve had surgery. I’ve just never needed it. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind if there were an anti-Viagra, something with the opposite effect. I’m not bragging. I’m just lucky. I don’t need it.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

If today I can practice a sport, and move around 90% of the time without a cane, it’s because of the love and support of my producers, record labels and above all my audience who have always believed in me. Otherwise I wouldn’t have made much more progress than I did in the hospital.

You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, y’know, is always with you.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.