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

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'

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

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.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.