I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

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

It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.

Flirtation attention without intention.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.

Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.