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

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

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