The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose some of the details of what you're doing along the way.

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.

Love is the ultimate salvation of the soul.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

Lord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral.

I think you need to have a healthy sense of doubt because I think doubt leads to inquiry.

Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival.

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.

And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.