Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what yo… - Garrison Keillor

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it --- don't let them do it.

First of all, most poems aren’t memorable; in fact, they make no impression at all. Sorry, but it’s true. There are brave blurbs on the back cover (“writes with a lyrical luminosity that reconceptualizes experience with cognitive beauty”) but you open up the goods and they’re like condoms on the beach, evidence that somebody was here once and had an experience but not of great interest to the passerby.