Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.

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

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

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.

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.