“Imagineminus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.”

“There is no more embarrassing thing in my life that the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, "I would like to order the Ginsu Knife."”

“I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.”

“Life's like a mayonnaise soda
And life's like space without room
And life's like bacon and ice cream
That's what life's like without you”

“The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.”

“You took me weak and unprepared.
I had not thought that you who shared
My days, my nights, my heart, my life,
Would slash me with a naked knife
And gently tell me not to bleed
But to accept your crazy creed.”

“With my teeth
I have seized life
Upon the knife of my youth.”

“Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”

“My chest hurts… It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.”

“Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape…. For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.”