I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and

I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.J. R. Moehringer

If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.Bob Menendez

'Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.Edward Burns

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.Bruce Beres

fordWriting can be an incredible mindfulness practice.Jon Kabat-Zinn

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.Jose Serrano

I was different from most young conductors today.Kurt Masur

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.Ben Hecht

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.Gerard Manley Hopkins