Floatin Weirdo

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.”

“Develop an interest in life as you see it: the people, things, literature, music. The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”

“Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte’s life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind’s thousand small accesses to pleasure.”