Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious

But I will finally be with Jesus. That is my one consolation, and it is enough to make death almost no worry at all.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way

There are certain movies you go and see, and then after, you wanna go home and talk to your best friend and tell her that you really love her.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter.

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.