When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.