I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.

And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.