Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.

If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

If skydiving were safe, the parachute center would not require you to sign a waiver.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

Do not collaborate with someone you would not go camping with.

A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.

Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

Piracy n: commerce without its folly-swaddles - just as God made it.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

I wish I had a little bit more privacy.

I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.