The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.