Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

I do some eccentric dancing.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.