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

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

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.