Garrison Keillor:
'A Democrat knows that the leaf turns'
"...and in the human comedy
we are one day spectators
and the next day performers.
The gains in life come slowly
and the losses come on suddenly.
You work for years to get your life the way you want it
and buy the big house and the time share on Antigua
and one afternoon you're run down by a garbage truck
and lie in the intersection, dazed, bloodied, your leg unnaturally bent,
and suddenly life becomes terribly challenging for six months.

...A liberal is a conservative who's been through treatment."