March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.
Garrison KeillorA young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
Garrison KeillorI'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.
Garrison KeillorSome luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.
Garrison KeillorNo matter what time of year I come here, people always say the same thing: Its not usually like this.
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 Keillor