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.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

Try to control your anger before it burns your life.

One must be honest with himself. Then it will be much better than it is now.

The measure of a man is not so much how tall he stands but how low he kneels.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

To the stars who listen - and the dreams that are answered.

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

Once I get the track I know what to do with it.

Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.