“It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....”

“It’s hard to tell you has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.”

“As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.”

“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

“However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”

“This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.”