My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.