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.

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.

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

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

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

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

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

The mind’s nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say ‘Why did you come at this wrong time?’ And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.

Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears

Relax, refresh and refocus.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Slurring is the cursive of speech.

People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

EVE:bite me chillie boy