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I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.

There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.

I don't have the time to curl up on my couch with a good book.

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.