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If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

I'm a freak of neat. The kitchen has to be clean.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.