I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep though.

All my life affection has been showered upon me and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

I like to do weird things in the shower like drink my coffee brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them but as I wrote my own I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have and take for granted: hot showers enough food friends routines.

I wanted to be a great white hunter a prospector for gold or a slave trader. But then when I was eight my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water and if you buy one for yourself buy six because everybody's going to want one.

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

I sing both in my shower and in my car mostly in my car because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.