Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.

I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.

I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums.

I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their notes and see what they've said. I don't criticize myself for making blunders here and there, because it's just natural. You write in chunks, and you may not remember that that sentence you wrote yesterday had the same word repeated three times. I do enjoy that. I love the feeling of repairing. Repairing is really nice.