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.

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.

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.

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.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

Only God can judge me so I'm gone, either love me or leave me alone.

Thoughts, intentions or feelings cannotcomprehend God but they can see and acknowledge the works of God.

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.