Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

I wake up everyday with an intention of delivering my masterpiece... nothing less

Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

If the fraud charges are proven, fraud order...is issued, a promoter can receive no funds through the mail..., shut off. All mail sent to him is returned to the sender marked 'Fraudulent'.

It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.