Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind, when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

This is why magic is dangerous. It lures you in. It makes you curious.

If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.