"We have some fast guys out there. It's always fun to compete with each other at practice in the outfield. It's going to be a fun year out there."

“A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.”

“If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.”

“... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life.”

“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”

“You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.”

Source : "Roy Blunt Rallying Support In Congress For Mitt Romney" by Thomas Ferraro, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2012.

“Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!”

“Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.”

“In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders”