It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.