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Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. - [Farewell] Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - [Cats] I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. - [Reality] Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. - [Want] The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. - [Laughter] They would not be smart enough to pour piss out of their boots, if the instructions were written on the sole. - [Stupidity] Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up. - [Wine and Spirits] The town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, lies on the shore against Adams Hill, looking east across the blue-green water to the dark woods. From the south, the highway aims for the lake, bends hard left by the magnificent concrete Grecian grain silos, and eases over a leg of the hill past the SLOW CHILDREN sign, bringing the traveler in on Main Street toward the town's one traffic light, which is almost always green. A few surviving elms shade the street. - Lake Wobegon Days (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. It was chilly on Tuesday and Wednesday, as a cold front moved through, and the tomato growers stayed up late debating whether to cover for frost or not. "Naw," they decided about ten o'clock, and hit the hay and lay thinking about it: the humiliation of getting froze out, the shame of eating store-bought tomatoes, or, worse, going on tomato relief. - Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories ("A Trip to Grand Rapids") [Books (First Lines)] Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome. - The Book of Guys [Manhood]
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