It's what you do that makes your soul.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.