I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

When in doubt, look intelligent.