Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

Lincoln's stature and strength his intelligence and ambition - in short all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6 2001 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9 his first prime-time address to the nation.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known using that as scaffolding and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

When a chick has a sense of humor there's nothing more attractive.

But it also became the experience or was the experience of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.