She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

Capitalism needs war.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

I think General Pershing was the most military figure I've ever seen.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

All isn't well with the world.