"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

“Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.”

Source : Richard Hugo (1992). “The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

“God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.”

Source : Leanna Renee Hieber (2011). “Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

“Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.”

“In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.”

“As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.”

Source : "Amy Sherman-Palladino on Bunheads, Gilmore Girls, and not making mediocre TV". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. January 14, 2013.

“I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.”

“My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.”

“Our problems are God's opportunities.”