I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.
All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.
Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.
With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to. . . really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.
Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.
I am a smiling depressive.
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.
The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
