Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?""What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said."Tomorrow morning, " Mabel said.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder.""A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, " Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

Beliefs converge and become something new all the time.

If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

Intuition comes from the heart and soul - not the mind.

I think in the end officials in each country's judicial system will do what they believe is right because if they do something bad to somebody it's on their conscience for the rest of their lives.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.