I'm out manned on the line of scrimmage. At the beginning of the year I knew that. I have as good a backfield as anyone, but we can't block for them.

We're playing for 2006 and 2007. It's not going to get any easier for us this year. We put a lot of the freshman out there today. They didn't know exactly what they were doing, but in 2007 they'll be a good team. They'll be better next year and they should be over .500 in two years.

He's a good player, but the guys on defense were all out of position. They all want to play like it's sand lot football and not listen to us.

In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.