Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

I have a swastika tattoo on my arm, but it's just because I like right-hand turns.

A girl can dazzle - just naturally!

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven.