"That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
- Garrison Keillor
"I ran a constant low fever waiting for my ride to come and take me away to something finer. I lay in bed at night, watching the red beacon on top of the water tower, a clear signal to me of the beauty..."
"The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Southern Baptists is not the same as what Lincoln spoke of. This gang of Republicans has humbugged us to..."
"You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories."
"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."
"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. "
"My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don’t have time for everything."
"It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake."
"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."
"A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book."