I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

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