It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Major Owens

Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

John A. Piece

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

Keith Ablow

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Malcolm Mclaren

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Meryl Streep

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Lou Holtz

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

Jodi Picoult

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

Harper Lee

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay

Mark Twain

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Ian Fleming