I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil..

Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its….

[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable ….

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer..

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life..

Writing is a form of self-flagellation..

The writer's duty is to keep on writing..

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do-by the skin of our teeth..

The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beg….

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, writi….

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unna….

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

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to v….

Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd had ….

The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be b….

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of ph….

What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jer….

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

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink..

we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable..

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