Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the moment because I'm probably not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.