My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

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.

Fear is the brother of hate.

For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

Little sister, don't you do what your big sister done.

It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.

Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy.