Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

People are quite frequently eccentric.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.