Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe