This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.

Nothing doing. I've no doubt you think I should look noble as a sacrifice. But I've never wanted to look noble, and I won't be made to. -- Neville Fletcher

My bugs don't have bugs.

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

The scent of the morning is prepared by the night; the scent of the night is prepared by the day; everything helps everything!

When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.