A great book should leave you with many experiences.

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

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.

Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

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

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.