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
Sing your song; don't let the bastards get you down.
I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.
Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus
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.