Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Do not try to be attractive

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.