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

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.

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.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it’s often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.

If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste.

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

I just love being in the U.K.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.