Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

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

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.