A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn't there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.

I think that's what a partnership is - you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other side... Whereas the Christian view is pressed on him day in and day out.