Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.