I Think What's Really Hard Is Making

English Is An Outrageous Tangle Of Those Derivations And Other Multifarious Linguistic Influences, From Yiddish To Shoshone, Which Has Grown Up Around A Gnarly Core Of Chewy, Clangorous Yawps Derived From Ancestors Who Painted Themselves Blue To Frighten Their Enemies.

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.

I've Never Thought It Was Necessary To Make Fun Of People - You Can Find Fun In People Without Necessarily Mocking Them.

I Think A Writer Is Not An Ideal Husband... Writers Tend To Get Off Into Their Own Heads And Not Notice The People That They're Living With, Or They Get Irritable With The People That They're Living With When The People Insist On Being Noticed.

Even Intellectuals Should Have Learned By Now That Objective Rationality Is Not The Default Position Of The Human Mind, Much Less The Bedrock Of Human Affairs.