To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and pol…

- James Alexander Thom

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

- James Alexander Thom

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

- James Alexander Thom

If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it with the first blow. Anything else w…

- James Alexander Thom

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as th…

- James Alexander Thom

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

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Too often we seek justice for just us.

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We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.

- James Alexander Thom

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance ev…

- James Alexander Thom