"I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing."

“In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too”

“That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.”

“My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.”

“Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'”

“A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a book.”

Source : "Mystery writer Carol Higgins Clark on her successful career and teaming with her famed mom to bring their popular characters to TV". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

“As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.”

“We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else.”

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the ***** and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.”