My wife, the star I steer by.

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

Yes, this is a dangerous time. Yes, this is a time full of shadows and fear. But we have been through worse before and we have faced more difficult days before. We have shown courage and determination, and skillful and inventive and courageous and committed responses to crisis before.

There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.