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.
Pat ConroyโฆThen another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speakโand then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from usโฆEach of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
Pat ConroyThe University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy