The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.