Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.