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.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.

I don't believe in happy families.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.