Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
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I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing.
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Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.
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When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
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It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
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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.
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I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
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Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
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I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.
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The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.
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Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
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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.