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.

Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.