If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

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.

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.