The reason is obvious. You're my grandfather, okay. Like it or not, you're who you are and i'm who i am. And i'm here right now, so what are we going to do about it? -Adam Cayhall-

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

If you pick a fight with one man or woman who is in pain you are already out numbered.

You don't have to do something every day that scares you. There's no fun in being terrified. Do one thing every day that makes you happy.

I cannot help but believe that we are meant for something, Elowyn, something greater than we know. Perhaps greater than we will ever know.

I have an awfully good life.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.