I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

I don't even hate books anymore.

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.