You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
No Answers, Just Stories
N
Confronting Reality
C
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
Perfect Autumn Memory
P
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
Stale News Analogy
S
The news of the day, as it reaches the newspaper, is often not much fresher than the fish you’ll find in the market.
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
Living Like It’s Last Day
L
If you lived today as if it were your last, you’d buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn’t you?
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
The Fiction Writer’s Burden
T
A person who has decided to start writing fiction is extremely hard to live with.
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
Religious Experience Duality
R
In every religious experience, there is a dream that is dreamed and a real world where it happens.
Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
Conquering Happiness
C
Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength.
Martin Amis – Money
Age Needs Money
A
You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it.
Martin Amis – Money
Emotional Plagiarism
E
I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people’s pain, subsuming it into my own.
Martin Amis – Money