Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

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

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.

People in cars cause accidents and accidents in cars cause people.

I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.