There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.