Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old in 1974. It was a tiny organization in which a lot of things got started simply because there was all this time to fill. If you wanted to do an hour on Lithuanian folk dancing, you probably could have done it.