Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Carroll O'Connor

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The principal part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Roger Tory Peterson

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

E. B. White

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Virgil

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Mercedes Lackey

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old no

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

William Shakespeare

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Ernest Hemingway

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Dweezil Zappa