and love was lightning and remembrance

As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.