I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.