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

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

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

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.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.