If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.

Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to abandon a half-finished work because you can't make it perfect. I hereby give you permission to write things that aren't perfect, make mistakes, try things that don't work, experiment with styles you're not used to and generally throw words around. You'll learn much faster that way.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched.