Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

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.

God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.