I do some eccentric dancing.

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

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

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

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.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.