E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

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.

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

I believe that destiny, and anything that is truly meant to be, will always find a way to right itself.

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.

There comes a time when you just have to say, “No!” – to the requests and to the system.

They serve God well Who serve his creatures.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

In the past, I've never tried to discount or stop what people are saying because on some levels I find it interesting.

Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.