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.

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

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

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

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.