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.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

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.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.