In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

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.

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.

I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.

When we live in the past, there is no future.

My eyes are open and I’m not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

A boy is not a sitting-down animal.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

I admired those girls who did Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Victoria's Secret. I love looking at them too, but I never went in that direction. I just stayed in fashion.

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second.