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Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.

When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

Depression is a physical illness.

Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.