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I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

I live most of the time in New York now. I have an apartment there.

I live in New York, but I'm gone 310, 320 days a year. My apartment is storage.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a normal person. I'm feeding my chickens and agonizing about my next book!

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.