Garrison Keillor

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

"Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, becau…"

"I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us."

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

"I want to resume the life of a shy person."

"Kingdom of the Frown", article from The Reykjavík Grapevine on Garrison Keillor"

"To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read i…"

"The word “loser” is spoken with such contempt these days, a man might like to forget the losses in his own life that taught him something about good judgment. The money he invested in that casino in A…"