When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

No matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this.

Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.