Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keilloris an American author, storyteller, humorist, radio actor, voice actor, and radio personality. He is known as creator of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 August 1942
CityAnoka, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
Winter: It's not just a season, it's who we are.
Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.
Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.
If the marriage needs help, the answer almost always is have more fun. Drop your list of grievances and go ride a roller coaster.
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
Have interesting failures.... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve.... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.
Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.