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

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

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the moment because I'm probably not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

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.

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.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.