“Sometimes there is no darker place than our own thoughts; the moonless midnight of the mind.”

“A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more...”

“When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”

“All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.”

“Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations. And because your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will, if you entertain too much anxiety about too many things, if you place no trust in providence, what you fear will more often come to pass. We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.”

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”

“Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.”