I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

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.

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

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.