Being rich and thin isn't everything.

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

Ralph Stanley is like an uncle to us and now that all my uncles are gone, Ralph's singing is even more precious. This album of classic folk songs is one of his best.

When it comes to finding available men in Minnesota, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

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.