Roy blount

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...

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.

I do some eccentric dancing.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

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...

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed...