177 Quotes by William Styron

This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me into bed.

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive...

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.

In Paris on a chilling evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind - a struggle which had engaged me for several months - might have a fatal outcome.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.