Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...clawed at her soul.

On days such as this, Death’s long shadow hung like a broken halo over everyone—a sign of things to come.

They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak, be our silent statement.

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages

Faith is not faith which is not tried.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

I would rather quit while I was ahead. There’s no need in overstaying your welcome.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.