He who laughs most, learns best.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.

We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.

You’re only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.