Love has the power to rescue us and not let go, otherwise it isn't love

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you should always keep a writer at arm's length.

My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

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