I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Edward F. Halifax

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

Marion Jones

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

Walter Hill, Wild Bill movie (ba

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Craig Bruce

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

Desmond Morris

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Eddie Cantor

Authentic Love - When you truly love another human being, you extend to them the dignity of risk. Love them without fear and embrace them without restrictions. Accept them without wanting them to change to your ideas of their person-hood. Watch them evolve and grow into the realization of their own potential. There comes a time when you recognize they need to journey on without you. Love them enough to let them go. Bless them and release them.

Julie Hardesty

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Elizabeth Gaskell