Where is my mind? *

"I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone."

"When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill."

"That was one of the saddest things about people—their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood."