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.

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.

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.

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

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.