"That man's silence is wonderful to listen to." Thomas Hardy
"I'll thcream and thcream and thcream till I'm thick." Richmal Crompton
"After you've written about something once, though, it's very dangerous to try and do it again. The original story was very good indeed, but the more he wrote the less good it became." Naomi Margaret Haldane
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." Edmund Hillary