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

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

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.

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

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.