"I thought about how the sound of burning and the sound of running water are almost the same."

"Here in the South, class-action lawyers are what we have instead of unions. Legally speaking, we prefer shoot-outs to…"

"Houston is basically a concrete saucepan full of swamp water. The sun heats it up to a slow boil in May and keeps it …"

"The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down. Not for anyone, not …"

"There’s a fine line between Houston and farce."

"There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and …"

"In short, I was behaving well...but at another level I was just Going Through The Motions. One of the things about be…"

"I kept on ignoring him. The dead are only ghosts, after all."

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."