Status Updates From Reasons to Stay Alive

But I have found over the years that by reading about other people who have suffered, survived and overcome despair I have felt comforted. It has given me hope.

‘And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.’