See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

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.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

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.