“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there.”

“You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in…”

“Time wounds all the heals, as we fade out of view.”

“His fine wit
Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.”

“The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.”

“This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!”

“It was the back nine [episodes of a season], was the backbreaker for us, right? You [can] kind of figure out the first ten over the summer; you pull three more out of nowhere; and then the back nine is just-- you're Sandra Bullock in Gravity.”

“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”

“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”

“I agree with that in principle. Where would you stick the knife in?”