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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
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New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.
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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 was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
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If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
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Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.
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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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Twitter. It's not a good sound, is it? If it were worth doing, there would be a better word for it.
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I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.
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People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.
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Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
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Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.
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Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.
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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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