Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
Garrison KeillorA lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison KeillorWhen writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.
Garrison KeillorPeople meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you should always keep a writer at arm's length.
Garrison Keillor