When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

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.

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

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.

@mink: Well, you’re in luck, if you pick another movie. My hair is clean, I usually eat dinner around eight, and I’m currently single. Not that it matters.

How to build a fire: stay true to your perspective! Then burn.

A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.

Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.