Friends are family you choose.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

Our Lord shouts and screams

I'm dangerous for you, Abby.

... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.

Go where people sleep and see if they are safe

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.