Quote of the Day (Flannery O'Connor, on Fame)

“If the fact that I am a ‘celebrity’ makes you feel silly, what dear girl do you think it makes me feel? It's a comic distinction shared with Roy Rogers’ horse and Miss Watermelon of 1955.”—Southern short-story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), letter to pen pal “A,” Dec. 16, 1955, in The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald (1979)