The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.
Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.
When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.
If you're afraid they might discover your redneck past, there are a hundred ways to cover your redneck past.
There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank.
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
You might be a redneck if your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.
You might be a redneck if your handkerchief doubles as your shirt sleeve.
You might be a redneck if during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.
You might be a redneck if the highlight of your parties is when you flip out your false teeth.
You might be a redneck if your good deed for the month was hiding your brother for a few days.
You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.
You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.