If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football..

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too la….

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party..

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions..

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of huma….

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..

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….

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

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'..

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

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

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….

I do some eccentric dancing..

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. ….

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

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