I won't rest until Tom Chaney's barking in hell.

Goals are the result of bringing your dreams, ideas, and ideals into a real and examinable form by giving them permanence in written form.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.

So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.