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.

If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.

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.

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.

My wife says in Richard Stark's world, the honest citizens are goofy. Okay, they are. I don't know if it's good or bad, but because he's outside his own world, it sort of freed up the environment around him to be a little more looser and goofier.