The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Garrison KeillorWelcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison KeillorThey say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Garrison KeillorA boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.
Garrison Keillor