Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. ~Edward Koch
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe