Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

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

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle