"...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel."

-- Andrew Sullivan

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“Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.”
“When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.”

Source : "Mr. Comics Talks Comics". Wired News Interview, www.wired.com. July 21, 2006.
“Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.”
“Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood”

Source : John McGahern (2009). “The Pornographer”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.”
“I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.”
“The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.”
“The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.”

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