"I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no... and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated..."

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

Kay Redfield Jamison

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“I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.”
“Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep and low; it's possible to lose track of it, to forget or fail to perceive how it's emptied everything out of you and made the world papery and thin. Touch starved, you brush against existence like a stick against dry leaves. You become insubstantial yourself, a hungry ghost.”

Source : "My Revolutions". Book by Hari Kunzru, 2007.
“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.”
“Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.”
“I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some writers, like my teacher Marilynne Robinson, she only writes one draft. I've thought about this a lot; I think it's because she writes it 80 times in her head before it comes out.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'”

Source : "Scare-meister Oren Peli Talks Horror Movies, Spoilers and What's Next on The River!". Interview with Damian Holbrook, www.tvguide.com. March 6, 2012.
“The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.”
“I donâ€™t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.”

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