The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception,… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know? — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
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.… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
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… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying? — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
