The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.

Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.