The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone.

It only took me 21 runs and five years to get a win here.

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

We don't want two-tier health care in Canada - one tier for Quebec and another tier for the rest of the country.

The young people when I go to McDonald's, the Hispanic clerks will come by, 'Sheriff, can we have a picture?' over and over again. At least they want a picture with me.

Once introduced discontinuity, once challenge any of the properties of visual space, and as they flow from each other, the whole conceptual framework collapses.

I think superheroes are bigger than life and they're very colorful.

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.