English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up aroun….

I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. ….

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South..

It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to ….

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is..

I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the ….

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'..

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants..

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always soun….

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van….

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity..

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day..

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie..

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through….

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at th….

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15….

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again..

I do some eccentric dancing..

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of So….

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can ….

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary..