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

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.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

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.