Crossword Puzzle Quotes

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV.

I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.

'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid' was my favorite of all the things I ever did, because it was like doing a Sunday crossword puzzle and beating it.

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a new episode of 'Homicide;' Saturdays and Sundays are oriented around walks in the woods with the dog, human companion in tow some of the time but not always.

I love doing the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle, even on the days I can't finish it.

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

Never leave a crossword unfinished.

I love an iPad game of Scrabble.

I had a big 'New York Times' crossword puzzle phase.

You know that thing where you're trying to do the crossword puzzle, and you're trying to fit the word that's in your head in the puzzle, and then you go 'Ugh!' and you walk away, and then it comes to you. I'm interested in that moment. The release of expectation, and the release of pleasing yourself and pleasing anybody. Breaking the mindset.

Writing songs and lyrics is not that different from doing the 'Times' crossword every morning. They both give you a good mental workout.

I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.