There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.