One day you'll have a quiet heart.

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.