Quote by Garrison Keillor (b. 1942)

• Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps.

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

• 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.

• Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

• To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.