A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

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

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

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.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.