The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

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

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.