My father's father visited the Grand Ol' Opry back when it was in the Ryman Auditorium, sat through the entire Saturday night performance without clapping or commenting, then turned to Mamaw and said Is that it? I don't know much more about the man because Dad rarely...

To hold her, to keep her -- just as she was -- with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue eyes, with her miserable poetry, with her fat feet, with her impure, dry, sordid, infantile soul. All of a sudden he thought: If people are reunited in Heaven...

Taken together, these studies suggest that at times depressed people are 'sadder but wiser' than nondepressed people. Nondepressed people succumb to cognitive illusions that enable them to see both themselves and their environment with a rosy glow. -- Lauren B. Alloy...

If a butchered hog’s melt faces toward the head, the worst part of winter will be the early part. If a butchered hog’s melt faces more to the back, the latter part of winter will be the worst. -- Helen Lane, 1964 The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we...

Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Jerry: If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would...

And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began. -- Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again The large marble ball was centered delicately atop the courthouse spire for sixty...

You know, Beaver, I’m afraid you have the wrong attitude. And if you don’t start buckling down and applying yourself, one of these days you’re gonna come up against a test or something, and find out you’re way behind the rest of the class. And you’re going to be a...