I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

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

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

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.

Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.