We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

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 like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

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

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