If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to fit in and struggle to survive.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

Most people never listen.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.