New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie. — Roy Blount, Jr Exercise Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Alcoholism Copy Share Image
Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round. — Roy Blount, Jr Cooking Copy Share Image
Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic. — Roy Blount, Jr Books Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr Affair Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations… — Roy Blount, Jr Artist Copy Share Image
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ. — Roy Blount, Jr Art Copy Share Image
I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them. — Roy Blount, Jr Comedy Copy Share Image
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on… — Roy Blount, Jr Father Copy Share Image
Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong… — Roy Blount, Jr Accents Copy Share Image
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been… — Roy Blount, Jr Animal Copy Share Image
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then… — Roy Blount, Jr Dating Copy Share Image
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around… — Roy Blount, Jr Ancestor Copy Share Image
When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing… — Roy Blount, Jr Bird Copy Share Image
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and… — Roy Blount, Jr Abstract Copy Share Image
I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it.… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich… — Roy Blount, Jr Accidents Copy Share Image
Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first… — Roy Blount, Jr Doctors Copy Share Image
I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now… — Roy Blount, Jr Advice Copy Share Image
Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to… — Roy Blount, Jr Accents Copy Share Image
