If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.

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.

Never lose hope, though everything's bleak, though you feel so weak. Never shrink back, never look back, especially when you know that you're fighting for the right reasons, for the right people.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

I would never be angry at someone for downloading the album. Sometimes people just wanna listen to it first to see if they like it and that's totally fair.

When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.

What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.