Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

The thought of people in this day and age sitting down to listen to a radio variety show on Saturday evening is rather implausible and was even more so in 1974 when we started “A Prairie Home Companion.” Thank goodness Minnesota Public Radio was too poor to afford good advice or the show never would've got on the air. We only did it because we knew it would be fun to do. It was a dumb idea. I wish I knew how to be that dumb again.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.