I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

At 11 this morning -- or 11:30, when my phone rang -- I was doing household chores and expected to come in and spend some time working on our plans for next year, and being here tomorrow morning first thing to do those things, ... My energy and dedication hasn't been thinking about my next job. I was trying to do this job the right way.

I likened my arrival to Paris as a pilgrimage.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.