“ Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble. Nora Ephron
“ Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times. Compton Gage
“ He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together: Compton Gage