Garrison Keillor Life Quotations

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesn't kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesnt kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

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.

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.