As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.

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.'

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

Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.