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

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

I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

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

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.