I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.

A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.

We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.