The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
Garrison KeillorWe come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Garrison KeillorIf you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
Garrison KeillorWal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
Garrison KeillorThe 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.
Garrison Keillor