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

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.