Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

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

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

Some things we must pass over in silence.

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.