Garrison Keillor
Born: 01-01-1942
Garrison Keillor is an American author, humorist, and radio personality best known for creating the beloved radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." Born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, Keillor's work often reflects his Midwestern roots through a blend of wit and nostalgia. He has authored numerous books, including novels and essay collections, capturing the quirks of small-town life with his distinctive storytelling style.
Book summaries for books written by Garrison Keillor
Quotes
A good time is laughing with people you love, not just people who happen to be around.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
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.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
We are here to serve life, not to question it.
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something', he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
The fun of sitting around, talking, and laughing is not confined to living rooms and parlors, to easy chairs and fireplaces. It is ubiquitous. It can happen anytime, anywhere.
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.
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.