And financial problems are exactly the same thing. You're humiliated. You're ashamed. You're embarrassed about telling anyone that you are suffering financial difficulties.

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive

We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.

I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."

Today, the average family has enough financial reserves to keep going for about three weeks. That's it.

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different, ' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock....

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular

Practice diligence, intelligence will follow you.

Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains . . . a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.

Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.

The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

I think we have replaced MTV. MySpace is more convenient. You can search for things, while MTV is just delivering things to you. On MySpace you can pick your own channel and go where you want.