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

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

A child can educate just about anybody.

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.

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