I do not know whom I wish to win; until I do, I will let no player be eliminated.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Cats talk to whomever they please.

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.