Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

When men talk about the agony of being men, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of self-pity. And when women talk about being women, they can never quite get away from the recurrent theme of blaming men.

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

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

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

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.