Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

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

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.

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.