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

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

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

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.

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.

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

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