Creative Geniuses Are A Slap-happy Lot. Treat

Not Too Many People Work In A Job Where, Waiting Out There Are Three Or Four Hundred People Who Are Paid To Tear Apart What You've Done. And Often They Are Brighter Than You Are, Or They Know More About The Subject Than You Do, Or They Wish They Had Written A Book Themselves, Or Done A Lot Better. Or They Just Don't Like It! And You Have To Live With It.

Never Forget, Son, When You Represent Texas, Always Go First Class.

Character Consists Of What You Do On The Third And Fourth Tries.

Many People Who Want To Be Writers Don't Really Want To Be Writers. They Want To Have Been Writers. They Wish They Had A Book In Print.

I Was Born To A Woman I Never Knew And Raised By Another Who Took In Orphans. I Do Not Know My Background, My Lineage, My Biological Or Cultural Heritage. But When I Meet Someone New, I Treat Them With Respect.... For After All, They Could Be My People.