I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.