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.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

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.

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.

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.

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.