For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.

What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice

When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.

The best and most exciting kind of love is the one that's so close to the heart and so real in the mind yet, truly never exists in reality -- it keeps the heart young and the mind believing!

Wake early, take more!

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Meditation essentially means having a great time.

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

The name of a person you love is more than language.

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.