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

- Roy Blount, Jr.

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…

- Roy Blount, Jr.

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

- Roy Blount, Jr.

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…

- Roy Blount, Jr.

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

- Roy Blount, Jr.

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…

- Roy Blount, Jr.

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 …

- Roy Blount, Jr.

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

- Roy Blount, Jr.

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.

- Roy Blount, Jr.