Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

It is not as if farming brought a great improvement in living standards either. A typical hunter-gatherer enjoyed a more varied diet and consumed more protein and calories than settled people, and took in five times as much viatmin C as the average person today.

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.

America is a very seductive place in terms of lifestyle and comfort, but it wasn't for me.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.