When Everything Is At Risk, Good Judgment,

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.

The Terrible Truth Is That Brutality Is Part Of Human Nature, And All The Laws In The World Can't Neuter It.

...the Larger World Lay Not Across Oceans But Within The Human Mind And Heart.

I Have Not Written A Perfect Sentence, In The Literary Sense. It's A Lot Easier To Throw A Perfect Pass Than To Write A Perfect Sentence, If That Sentence Is Meant To Perform More Than A Mechanical Function.

Experiences Are Like Hoarded Gold. Whenever I Dole Out A Piece Of My Private Suffering, That Is When I Get Letters From All Over The World.