As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed in order to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

Richard Linklater

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Alvin Dark

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Frank A. Clark

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

George McGovern

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Source Unknown

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Henry Louis Gates

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Frederick Langbridge

It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.

Wayne Burgraff

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

George Bernard Shaw

A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.

Prabhas

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Brandy Norwood