Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
Garrison KeillorSome people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot of comedy, its just that he has so many bad actors.
Garrison KeillorA good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
Garrison KeillorWe writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.
Garrison KeillorIf you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
Garrison KeillorThe audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.
Garrison Keillor