Garrison Keillor

"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."

- Garrison Keillor

"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."

- Garrison Keillor

""When in doubt, look intelligent.""

- Garrison Keillor

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."

- Garrison Keillor

"The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose."

- Garrison Keillor

"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."

- Garrison Keillor

"“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”"

- Garrison Keillor

"A book is a gift you can open again and again."

- Garrison Keillor

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."

- Garrison Keillor

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."

- Garrison Keillor

"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."

- Garrison Keillor

""A book is a gift you can open again and again.""

- Garrison Keillor

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted."

- Garrison Keillor

"The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose."

- Garrison Keillor

"“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out his nose.”"

- Garrison Keillor

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."

- Garrison Keillor

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose."

- Garrison Keillor

"Bravery and adventure! That’s the ticket! Don’t sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing."

- Garrison Keillor

"When in doubt, look intelligent."

- Garrison Keillor