You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.