“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”

“One must speak little. In action one must say nothing. The chief is the one who does not speak.”

“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.”

“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”

“When one speaks of sex with midgets, one must speak French.”

“...a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. . . We must see all scars as beauty... Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you... You must hear them the way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.”