What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.

I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

The more I focus on the positive, the more positive my life becomes.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

I wish I could play the World Cup; thats one of my dreams.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

Anyone who tries to make brownies without butter should be arrested.

I need physics more than friends.

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.

I thank all missionaries, men and women who quietly work hard for the Lord and their brothers and sisters.

I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.