A book is a gift you can open again and again. - Garrison Keillor

"Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore."

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

"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

"A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing."