We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

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.

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

Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.

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

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.