Someone who has got themselves into a catastrophic situation rarely retreats from it, we're far more inclines to carry on even faster.

We've created lives where we can watch other people crash into the wall but still hope that somehow we're going to pass straight through it. The closer we get, more confidently we believe that some unlikely solution is miraculously going to save us, while everyone watching us is just waiting for the crash.

One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos. Someone who has got themselves into a catastrophic situation rarely retreats from it, we're far more inclined to carry one even faster

This book is dedicated to the voices inside my head, the most remarkable of my friends. And to my wife, who lives with us.

It helps to know that you're not alone when you've been left behind. You can't carry the guilt and shame and the unbearable silence on your own, and you don't have to.

We're just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what to do to each other, with each other, for each other.