You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

I've reached the age where anyone who lets me talk seems like an old By listening to my memories, you have become part of them.

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.