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

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

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.