Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn’t...

I focused on how these people became how they were.

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn’t been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

‘Dilbert’ became popular during the downsizing of the ’90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of...

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.