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.

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

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

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

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.