I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

The bluegrass community... can be very strict. I didn't know if I'd be welcomed into the bluegrass community or not, but I think they judge you very fairly... I felt really welcome.

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.