Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. If I'm not there, I go to work. The cynics are right nine times out of ten. Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Hemingway was a jerk.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. That's one of the risks you take. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. It is better to be quotable than to be honest. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.