Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
Garrison KeillorWhen you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.
Garrison KeillorForget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.
Garrison Keillor