Majestic doesn't appeal to us. We [Americans] like the Grand Canyon better with Clarence and Arlene parked in front of it, smiling.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

All solutions are temporary, so why not go for duct tape?