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'.

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've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.

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

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.

I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.