Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.

Different versions of a true story

A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

As young as I look, I think it will still be funny if I played a person who's kind of tortured and hates his life. Kind of like a Larry David-type thing.

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.