wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.

I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.

But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.

Maybe I’d lost something. Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less.

But tell you true, I honestly didn’t think nothing about the Green Man beefing that posse. Was just men and the world’s full of them.

Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.

Was like the Green Man said, some you got to put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Often the latter, with me. But some, you just got to put behind you.

Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.

Was Jane now. All Jane. Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.

what I like and what I need’s two different things.

Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

He didn't look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah--sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah--cared. And that made him real.

i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality.

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

When people feel good, they look good.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.