“E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.”

“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. ”

“A disruption of the circadian cyclethe metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday lifeseems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomn...”

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it." -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)”

“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is ab...”

“When I was first aware that I had been laid low by the disease, I felt a need, among other things, to register a strong protest against the word "depression." Depression, most people know, used to ...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”