“Once a man saw heaven in one woman's arms, then nothing else would do. And that scared the shit out of him, the thought that no other woman but Lilly would do. - Travis/Black Jack about Lilly Belle/Night Hawk (Lady Hawk to him)”
“Don't wake up," he whispered as he felt her shudder against him once more. "Dream with me, Belle. Sweet Belle, just dream with me."-from Travis/Black Jack”
“I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.”
“I’m not going to tell anybody, not even Lilly. Lilly would NOT understand. NOBODY would understand. Because nobody I know has ever been in this situation before. Nobody ever went to bed one night as one person and then woke up the next morning to find out that she was somebody completely different.”
“For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.”
“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.”