Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.