Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

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

I do not know what the cat can have eaten. Usually I know exactly what the cat has eaten. Not only have I fed it to the cat, at the cat's insistence, but the cat has thrown it up on the rug, and someone has tracked it all over onto the other rug. I do not know why cats are such habitual vomiters. They do not seem to enjoy it, judging by the sounds they make while they are doing it. It's their nature. A dog is going to bark. A cat is going to vomit.

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

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.