"Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily."

“I have had 50 drinks in one go!”

“Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.”

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

“The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.”

Source : John Alan Walker, William Wendt (1992). “Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé”

“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.”

“A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.”

“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.”

Source : Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

“We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.”