When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

I write on a laptop, so it's impossible to count drafts anymore.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.