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

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.

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

There isn't anything that I cannot be or do or have, and I have a huge Nonphysical staff that's ready to assist me, and I'm ready.

Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.