I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Don Marquis

Who we are now is all that really matters.

Amy Joy

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

Jodi Picoult

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Ray L. Wilbur

I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be.

Nenia Campbell

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

David R. Brower

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Douglas William Jerrold

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy

I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.

Tina M. Randolph

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

Darrell Royal

They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.

Neil Gaiman

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Atwood H. Townsend