"Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday."

“I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.”

“Real Democrats don't make promises they can't keep.”

“We want to encourage people. You are not just another kid in the youth group or the lady on the third row. God has a purpose for every life.”

“Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud! Inside you, vaults behind vaults open endlessly. You will never be finished, and that's as it should be.”

Source : "Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer dies aged 83" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2015.

“You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.”

Source : "The Stax Report: Script Review Of Rollerball". www.ign.com. July 14, 2000.

“The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.”

“Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.”

“Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 89), 1895.