It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Don’t hang onto anything too tightly – all things must change and you have to allow room for them to grow and blossom.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

Excitement always leads to tears.

I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all my years in Vegas.

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

If Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake had a literary love child, he would be Timothy Hallinan.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.