Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.

I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.

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

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.