Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

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

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.