It hasn't changed the way we live or relate to each other, ... But there is this intangible, hard-to-pin-down sense of permanence that is hard to describe.

He just has that intangible that you can't really put a word on. He's got 'it'.

I wanted to write about the idea of a multi-generational household because Americans don't live like that anymore, ... In writing about that place, I had to write about my great-grandparents' marriage, my grandparents' marriage, my parents' marriage.

It's always been hard to pin him as a partisan. But this time, he has had to do too many partisan things.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

It's so hard to pin anything down. A cougar or puma is like a UFO with four feet.