The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

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

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.

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

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.