I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.

How'd it feel?" Rube asked himself. "I don't know exactly, but it made me want to howl.

His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.