Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

If you never forgive you'll always be alone.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

She had to force herself to ‘get on with it’ or she would build a wall in her way so fast she would never get past it.

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.