All four of them want it pretty badly. It’s the last great site on the Strip and there’s never going to be another chance like this.

God is the color of water. Water doesn’t have a color.

There’s such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is...

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a...

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till a big old smile busted out from beneath ’em all, and his grey...

When you’re interviewing someone, even your mother – you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what’s the...

People don’t realize you’re blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it’s got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then...

The Good Lord Bird don’t run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He’s searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that’s taking all the...

Interest rates aren’t as critical since half their customers pay cash for their purchases. That protects them a little bit from housing cycles.

They talk themselves out of everything else, there’s nothing else but you and the information you want, and they give it to you.

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.

You have to give him pretty high marks on how he manages the business. They’ve done pretty good in the marketplace, taking share every year.

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That’s all. The rest you can deal with. It’s not about black or white. It’s about God and don’t let anyone tell you different....

Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster’s duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

Like those old Civil War guns where you have to pack the muzzle before you fire, so I spent 14 years packing, packing packing.

Whatever you is, Onion,” he said, “be it full.

The important thing is for students to know that it’s OK to fail. Failure teaches success you don’t have to aim for law school or medical school as alternatives for living a full and useful...

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that...

The children created pop art portraits of themselves by tracing over a digital picture on the computer. It certainly added something extra. At the end of the class, they couldn’t believe that it was already...

Blow Ye Trumpet.” Them Negroes was far away from the doings on the plaza where the Old Man was to hang, way out from it. But they sang it loud and clear….Blow ye trumpet blowBlow...

They’re trying to get the best possible price for shareholders. They probably approached it in the right manner by not getting too firm with any one bidder.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn’t count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied “You are a human being. Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!

We all got to die,” she said. “But dying as your true self is always better. God’ll take you however you come to Him. But it’s easier on a soul to come to Him clean....