I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

I am better than my reputation.