Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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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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I do some eccentric dancing.
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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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It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.
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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 like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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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.
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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 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.
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Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
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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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Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.