Some Things We Must Pass Over In

My Mother, A Teacher, Encouraged Me To Use My Creativity As An Actual Way To Make A Living, And My Father, A Mississippi Physician, Did Two Things. First, He Taught Me That All Human Beings Should Be Treated Equally Because No One Is Better Than Anyone Else, And He Never Pressured Me To Become A Doctor.

He Always Reminded Us That Every Atom In Our Bodies Was Once Part Of A Distant Star That Had Exploded. He Talked About How Evolution Moves From Simplicity Toward Complexity, And How Human Intelligence Is The Highest Known Expression Of Evolution. I Remember Him Telling Me That A Frog's Brain Is Much More Complex Than A Star. He Saw Human Consciousness As The First Neuron Of The Universe Coming To Life And Awareness. A Spark In The Darkness, Waiting To Spread To Fire.

Any Person Who Wants To Govern The World Is By Definition The Wrong Person To Do It.

Sooner Or Later. It Had Better Be Sooner. Later Is Like The Horizon; It Recedes As You Approach.

See Spot Run!' Is A Perfect Sentence In Some Ways. But I Doubt The Critics Would Say It Was.