Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it