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8. I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.

9. Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

10. Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

11. New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

12. 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.

13. I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

14. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

15. Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

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

17. Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

18. That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

19. I do some eccentric dancing.

20. I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

21. English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.