A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.