Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.