What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked.Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

One person's success doesn't take away from your own.

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.