I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.