Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

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

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

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.

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.

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.