All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

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.

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.

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

It is better to be redeemed than be rich.

When we buy books we're fooling ourselves into thinking we buy the time to read them.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

Always the tone of surpise.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

"Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.

Desperate times breed desperate measures