“The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.”

“Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.”

“Words sometimes tumble out before I can self-edit.”

“Potter, you really are just as foolish and preposterously self-absorbed as your father.”

“A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot.”

“Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.”