You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
Hanif KureishiIf you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
Hanif KureishiI guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
Hanif KureishiAll the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal.
Hanif Kureishi