Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.