What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

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

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

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.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

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