68 Quotes by Roy Blount, Jr.

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.

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

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

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

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.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.