I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.

Once you're out in a place where there's one sheriff for the county, people have to learn how to get along with each other and that means going to the dump illegally and dumping your garbage and hoping the guys don't call you on it and being terrified of this to your core until you realize after many years that the guys at the dump don't really care where your garbage is coming from.

I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

You wouldn't want to live a life in which you are loved or approved by all people on Earth or even within your own geodetic dome full of your jumpsuited followers.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

I think, as we all learn as a child, you have to learn to tolerate ambiguity better and I'm still terrible at it and I hate it; even the word ambiguity makes me sick to me stomach.