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.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

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.

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.

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.

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

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