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

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

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

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

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!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Do not quit. Hang on the wings of hope.

Oh baby, love and treasure yourself ❤ As in this life journey all you have is yourself.

Well, you can go on looking forward, " said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

In the private arena, you can do whatever you wish, and people do. These crazy evangelical preachers get on the radio and TV and say incredible things.

I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

It's like pain, this pleasure.