I been studyin' the rain and I'm 'on drive my blues away.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision.

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.

The blues is a low down achin' chill.

Hello Satan, it's time to go. Me and the devil, walkin' side by side.

Loneliness is a hell of a drug.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

I woke up this mornin' Feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout I got these, Old walkin' blues.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it while it's still crap.

I'd like to get back home to Nova Scotia more, but thankfully, with technology you can call and text and FaceTime. But physically being in Toronto or Nova Scotia... there's nothing like it.

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

I see nothing wrong in sterilizing a man who has already brought eight or ten children into the world. Especially if it helps those eight or ten children to live better.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a contamination.