As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I expected something pathological, but I did not expect the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.