Tom Bodett Quotations

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?

What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.

There's a lot of people around Alaska now who are actually running the place who claim to just have gone there for the summer once 30 years ago. And that seems to be what happens.

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.