"You fail only if you stop writing."

“Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”

“Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.”

“Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough sea-shore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.”

“One of my favorite activities is just to drive and listen to music - of course, only when there's no traffic.”

Source : "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Relationships, like eyebrows, are better when there is space between them.”

“I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.”

“One of the truths about the world is that there are two superpowers, one a huge power which happens to have its boot on your neck; another, a smaller power which happens to have its boot on other people's necks. I think that anyone in the Third World would be making a grave error if they succumbed to illusions about these matters”

“The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.”