What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.

Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.