There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory..

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous..

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss..

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders..

We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the ….

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience..

I don't believe in happy families..

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life..

A story untold could be the one that kills you..

Good writing is the hardest form of thinking..

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game..

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult..

One does not know where love will take you..

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one..

...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ran….

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance..

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compa….

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed..

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement..

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless..