I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.

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

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

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.

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.