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

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

That’s what high school does for you: gives you some art and music and history so that even if you spend your life raising kids and writing computer programs, still there was a time when you argued about the First Amendment and talked about the Civil War and read Romeo and Juliet.