Usage ain't always a matter of ought..

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto..

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun..

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it..

Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the a….

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words..

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's no….

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic..

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does..

Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I g….

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp..

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the key….

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

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind..

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times..

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic..

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….

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives..

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing..

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor..