A great book should leave you with many experiences.

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

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.

The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.