A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

You don’t need much to give. Give what you have.

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?

I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

If you're an addict, if you drink and you're putting a depressant into your body, it's going to cause serious problems.

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.