"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy."

"What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."

"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own."

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."

"While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love."

"I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."

"Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has."

"Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin."