One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.

A small profit is better than a big loss.

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.

Failures can be called ‘strengtheners’ as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.

The Spirit reveals what lies ahead.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Break, beat up everything, beat and destroy! Everything that's being broken is rubbish and has no right to life! What survives is good

What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.

One thing I have learned is, if people tell you they had a "frank" discussion with someone, it is usually code for a yelling match with clenched fists.

O Allah! Pardon my sins. Yes, I come.

I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.

Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.