Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies

Some things happen for a reason, Others just come with the season.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.

When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.

Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!