This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

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.

in Vancouver BC and drive south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

I probably tweet every other day, which I know isn't half as much as some people.

Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth.

I don't like people that try to psyche other people out.

I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.

What you write chooses you.