Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.

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.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

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.

It's my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.

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.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.