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'.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

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.

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.

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

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.