Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

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.