Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.