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Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.