In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.