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

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

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'.

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

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.