Writing fiction is for me a fraught business an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Business underlies everything in our national life including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Vulgar and obscene the papers run rumors daily about people in show business tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

But my most favourite pursuit after my daily exertions at the Foundry was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.

My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings and at night always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up.

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.