A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!

You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.

An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

Some things you do-or you're about to do-you can just be like, 'Hey, don't do that because it means trouble.' So I've got to back off.

In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?