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

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

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

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

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.