Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Everybody trusts a guy in a raincoat. I don't know why. It's just one of those mystery facts.

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

To put failure behind you, face up to it.

Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.

In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honestly, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.