Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

We all have hometown appetites.

The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation.

Never grow a wishbone daughter where your backbone ought to be.

Most people are afraid of what will happen when they go outside the lines.

Your happiness depends on people around you and people you love, but peace of mind you alone can cultivate. Never loose your peace of mind even when unhappy.

You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be

Listen more often than you speak.

We live in a description of reality.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.

Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.