Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

Arnie, you're going to have to buy a bigger jet.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van