I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

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

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

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

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.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.