Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

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.

A child can educate just about anybody.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

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.