My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

We have an incredible national forest service, and we have an incredible child outreach program that the president has put together. I don't see anything wrong with national service for a minimum of two years. If we were to require that, we wouldn't need a draft.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball.