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When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another, out in the world. It varies, and I like that.

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it's usually while I'm developing a project and not while I'm writing it.

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

When I'm writing something and I'm really into it, that's all I can think about, and it becomes the most important thing in the world to me, and it may not be that, in reality.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.