I wish I had more confidence.

I grew up in Minnesota.

Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

I love everything Minnesota.

Everyone should walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I did it three days in a row because it was one of the most exhilarating experiences I've ever had. The view is breathtaking.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

What I love doing is taking my dog for runs.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.

the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from the inside.

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Where there is no waste, there is no want.

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

If my stories can touch you, make you laugh, forget unhappy things, or even give you that 'good job' feeling, then I'll be super, super happy!

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.