I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.

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.

Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

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