... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.
Garrison KeillorThere is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
Garrison KeillorA good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison KeillorWe carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.
Garrison KeillorThis is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one.
Garrison Keillor