“I swing from a hyper state in which, quite far from feeling self-disgust and self-hatred, you are grandiose… You have feelings of grandiosity and creative power and connection to the world and absolute empathy with all living and inanimate things and everything seems possible and it’s very hard to sleep and your body’s buzzing, When you’re depressed, the idea of there being a tomorrow seems insupportable, nonsensical and pointless and it’s very hard to shake off. You don’t want to connect to other people, you just want to pull the social duvet over your head and be done with it all. It can be very bad indeed and painful.” — Stephen Fry (CNN, September 22, 2010)