Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.

A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.

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.

Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.