The weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout.

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.

Underneath, he was a good cat. Loyal and loving. But no one ever bothered to look past his rough exterior, because in reality, looks meant more than everyone wanted to admit.

The best thing you can ever have is peace of mind, it is a basking fire to keep a cold heart in warmth, and a fortified confidence to be proud of.

The best listeners listen between the lines.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

Things don't change, people change.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.