Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

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.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

I have a deal with HBO to develop television, and I am also developing a movie called 'The Abstinence Teacher, ' which is based on a book by Tom Perrotta.

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

Walking the streets of New York, a lot of people are cheering me on. It feels good.

It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

The way people see you is the way you really are.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

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