While he talks of moderation on independence day, he called for a "moratorium" on religious violence the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, appears eager to antagonise.
While he talks of his work and his career, he whisks out the hand lotion, the toothpaste, and the clothespin, each at its proper time, to demonstrate memorable sizzles he has found.
But because – while he talks of the intense, real love he feels for a miniature poodle and once felt for a kestrel – the best he manages for Charlotte is that, after 10 years together, he is very definitely not bored with her.
While he talks of "Iran's history of deceit" over its "continual pursuit of nuclear weapons", not a word is uttered about Israel's arsenal of nuclear weapons, which it still officially denies and which for years it concealed from the world until Mordechai Vanunu exposed them, for which "crime" he was abducted and imprisoned for 18 years and has been denied permission to leave Israel ever since.
While he talks of "making America great again," he trashes everything about America.
He work khaki pants and a pale purple-and-white striped, open-collared dress shirt while he talked about the improbable issue of the day: raising the debt ceiling.
He allowed his inner feelings about race, and the question of a double standard, to slip out in a stream of consciousness while he talked with a columnist.
You get to do rock star things.' " In his button-down shirt and with a Brewers cap hiding a mop of hair while he talked in a borrowed office a few steps from a friend's party, he couldn't have seemed less the alt-rock god.
As we talk it out, I wonder if I'm taking it all too seriously—I scroll through his feed while he talks, through dozens of photos of him playing with dogs and posing in the mirror.
While driving us in his pickup, he talked of buying a cottage here in 1971, when the summer season was shorter and the visitors fewer.
While he talks with pride of how he made himself a writer through sheer determination, he regards fiction itself as beyond rational explanation.
