Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.

As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.