I Lost An Arm On My Last

The Big Talent Is Persistence.

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.

Beware At War Or At Peace, More People Die Of Unenlightened Self-interest Than Of Any Other Disease

In Order To Rise From Its Own Ashes A Phoenix First Must Burn.

Positive Obsession Is About Not Being Able To Stop Just Because You're Afraid And Full Of Doubts. Positive Obsession Is Dangerous. It's About Not Being Able To Stop At All.