Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

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

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

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

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

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.