"Humour is a way of relating and connecting to people, especially when you're a minority or misunderstood. It has the power that other forms of conversations or writing don't have. With all the problems I had, sometimes the only way of coping with it is to make fun of yourself."

“I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.”

Source : "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown

“The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.”

“It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.”

“These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’”

“The past is where its supposed to be.”

“We're in a league of our own darling and don't you forget it.”

“Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.”

Source : Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf