You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.

The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.