14 Quotes by Brent Runyon

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital – being outside of social action for so long – turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

I didn’t have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

I was surprised that every single person I talked to had a story about how depression had affected their lives. Carmelita Gamboa, a teenager in Michigan, later wrote to me, “The sad thing is, after a while, it starts to feel like home”. It does, doesn’t it?

Now I’m trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.