Be in control of your piece, Jo. The minute it takes control of you, you’re dead,” Willie would tell me.

“I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless f…”

“One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate he…”

“What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?”

“It is estimated that Josef Stalin killed more than twenty million people during…”