21 Quotes by Steve Lopez

It's a big thing - they're excited about having him.

I'm glad for the kids. I think the kids wrestled really hard. I think we came up just a little short of winning second place.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.

Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured and the dying.

Mental illness doesn’t choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like an unexpected storm, dropping an endless downpour on young dreams.

Negativity is never an option.

It’s more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

Nathaniel is not a mentally ill musician, as I have been referring to him, but a musician with mental illness. It’s a subtle but significant difference, recognizing the person before the illness.