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.

I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.

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

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

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.