Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

I no longer want to see others as humans. I want to learn to see others as brothers, sisters, mothers, & fathers.

Success is climbing all the way up failure’s steep ladder.

People ask me where I got my x-ray powers. I inherited them from my parents in parental supervision. Erase the dots and your doubts if you think that I was 'raysed' alone.

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.

Food and clothes sustain Body and life; I advise you to learn Being as is. When it's time, I move my hermitage and go, And there's nothing To be left behind.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?