Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on hating Toronto.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.

Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians

When you stop worrying about your shortcomings, you deny your enemies, rivals, and/or competitors lethal weapons they may use to attack and defeat you.

My shows are not narratives.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

-'I don't see what good it's going to do for you to waltz back in there and--' -'Can I tango back in there, instead? So much sexier than the waltz.

My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.