The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

- Edna Buchanan

Life is a death-defying experience.

- Edna Buchanan

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

- Edna Buchanan

You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain.

- Edna Buchanan

Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Lo…

- Edna Buchanan

Every once in a while, there comes a story. A story that blows your mind. One where you know you've made a difference. That's what makes it all worth…

- Edna Buchanan

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off …

- Edna Buchanan

Men give love because they want sex. Women give sex because they want love. That's the difference between men and women. Ever notice how when we talk…

- Edna Buchanan

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

- Edna Buchanan