Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. |
Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. |
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. |
Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. |
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. |
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. |
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. |
The madness of depression is 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. |
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. |
The writer's duty is to keep on writing |
They are the constants of life, at the core of life, along with nice little delights that come along every now and then . . . we all have them. |
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats . . . for jittery people. |
Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats . . . for jittery people. |