I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

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.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

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 like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

I do some eccentric dancing.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.