I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

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

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.