Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

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.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

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

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.