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

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

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

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?

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.