Redhill Quotes & Sayings

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again. — Michael Redhill

Then you wake up in Barstow California. Another dissociative fugue. It's like time traveling. It's late November now. What ever happened at teresa is a mystery to you. In Godforsaken Barstow, where the golden state shits itself into the desert, people are eatting each other. Has it always been this way? — Lost Zombies

I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist. — Michael Redhill

I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry. — Elizabeth Meriwether

I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that. — Michael Redhill

Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will. — Susan Wiggs

I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six. — Jack Kirby

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves. — Michael Redhill

Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes back. — Michael Redhill

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most. — Michael Redhill

Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world. — Michael Redhill

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me. — Michael Redhill

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic. — Eric Chaisson

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting. — Robin Wright

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down. — Michael Redhill

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls. — Louisa May Alcott

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate. — Michael Redhill

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea. — Michael Redhill

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling. — Michael Redhill

Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers 'Grow, grow'. — Midrash Rabbah

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me. — Michael Redhill

No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws. — Margaret Mitchell

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison. — D.H. Lawrence

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die. — Michael Redhill

I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied. — Michael Redhill

I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good. — Michael Redhill