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.

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

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.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.