Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.

It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”“You only say that because you have no shame.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

At the end of the day it is just a movie and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.