Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

Life will change for us the moment we decide to change our minds.

You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.