New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

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

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if you sit down at the keys long enough, sooner or later something will come out.