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?

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

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

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.