"I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?"

“My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.”

Source : "Carl Barron Live". Comedy, 2003.

“Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother.”

“There is a window from one heart to another heart.”

“I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.”

“We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

“I felt like I wasn't doing justice to either side of my life. It wasn't pronounced. Publicity is an awkward thing to do. It is awkward to call people up all the time and ask them for things on a very basic level.”

“When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.90, Macmillan

“Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.”