An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

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.

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

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.

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.

I've never thought it was necessary to make fun of people - you can find fun in people without necessarily mocking them.

I do some eccentric dancing.