The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.