My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.
Garrison KeillorMarrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?
Garrison KeillorShe gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.
Garrison KeillorIf the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.
Garrison KeillorAdolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.
Garrison Keillor