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

...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style.

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Childhood is the small town everyone came from.

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.

In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.