I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'