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

Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

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.

Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

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