In a funny way, the stories keep themselves alive by emerging from one another. I like that.

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.

Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

If God is calling you to do something, do it! You can't run away from God!

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

Anything can be any color at any time depending on what color everything else is at the time.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Could love have only one side to it and still be love?

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.