I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

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.

All those big words produce disgust today.

Love should mean, never having to ask, "Do You Love Me"?

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie Fall on Your Knees, they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.