To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

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.

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

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

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

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.

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