Roy Blount Jr.

"A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic."

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

"In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is."

"A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat’s eyes don’t even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog’s eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, “What do you want me to do for you? I’ll do anything for you.” Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don’t have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing."

"I do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies."

"Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now its too late."