Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

If you keep doing things that don't matter to you, you will not have time to do things that really do.

Life is a complex matter thrown into the hands of simple people.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.