When people move from poor COUNTRIES to AMERICA, they quickly ADAPT in at LEAST one way - their consumption HABITS.

People who look down never GET much of an IDEA of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a STAR never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look AHEAD.

If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would RECOVER with astonishing SPEED. Because most MARINE animals are highly mobile during at least one stage of their development, the rewilding of the seas NEEDS little help from humans.

I love a BICYCLE, and I haven't been without at LEAST one since I was three YEARS OLD.

I WROTE the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one SIMILARITY between us and that was that Dickens loved to WRITE and wrote with the EASE and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

Every woman should ABSOLUTELY own at least one staple SKINNY jean that is a) a dark WASH denim and b) at least 2 percent spandex to have that everyday comfortable wear.

A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking AROUND LUCKY and NEVER know it.

Our CONGRESS should stay in session all summer - CAMP out in D.C., and turn off the AC. Put on their stuffiest powdered wigs and sweat it out, until they give in and put their JOHN Hancocks (and their Nancy Pelosis and their John Boehners) on at least one meaningful LAW that no one WANTS to repeal.

I'm not a Dickens GUY. In grad SCHOOL I had to take at LEAST one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

Audience PARTICIPATION can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your AVERAGE dial-tone literary READING, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these THINGS.

I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them ENOUGH to commission a MUSICAL and to live on for a YEAR. You'd be likely to GET at least one project with a FUTURE.

My IDEAL beach house has bookshelves FULL of paperbacks that can tolerate a little SAND, a DVD library that includes some DISNEY classics for the little ones, board games, and jigsaw puzzles. At least one big flatscreen TELEVISION is a must.

Warrior WRITER workshops have sprung up ACROSS the country, and of the ones I've attended and participated in, most contain at LEAST one or two STAR writers.