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When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff.

Schepisi is the sort of director who could, would, and frequently did phone me whenever he came across a textual problem.

If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress.

The situation around Terri Schiavo was a deeply held conflict over what to do if someone isn't going to return to consciousness or competence. Who will decide? Even there, where we had settled legal rules, we still had disagreement. We're torn about these things.

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

The thing that I came to realize was that Schulz is the great unifier. Here's the one cartoonist that pretty much everybody can agree on.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.