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

I do some eccentric dancing.

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.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.