The weather of Depression is unmodulated, its light a brownout.

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

This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

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

Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. 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.