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

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

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

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

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.

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

Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not all sure. Putting myself in Dr. Gold's shoes, I wondered if he seriously thought that this juiceless and ravaged semi-invalid with the shuffle and the ancient wheeze woke up each morning from his Halcion sleep eager for carnal fun.