There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future

Never let your dreams go away.

I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

I started writing just to have a creative outlet during the down time.

We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.