About

Recently liberated from worrying about my eccentricity

Education

• Vanderbilt University
• Clemson University
• Lander University
• Erskine
• Dixie High School

Favorite saying

• "We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call,no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the house burns down around us. The stiff witted and academic seem not to realize that it is entirely possible to be ironic and sincere at the same instant, that a knowing tongue in cheek does not necessarily preclude an affectionate glow in heart. The sea was the shade of blue that black could have been if it hadn’t stepped over the line. The universe is organized anarchy and I'm lying in the folds of its flag. The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of a falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him. The demon of religious intolerance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity. Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's greatest gifts. It involves many things, but above all else the ability to go outside one's self and appreciate what is loving and noble in another. Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. No man can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than he can be witty only by the help of speech. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."