“What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?”
“What are you doing, Poirot?""I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.”
“To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia…in public…You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself…You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed”
“Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.”
“I fix what's broken - except in the heart.”
“No matter what, that friendship is real. No matter how much you dissect it, or talk about it, or analyze it, it'll always be real.”