If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.