I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

I do not consider myself at work unless I am before a six-foot canvas.

The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

I was brought up with the 3 Ds: Determination, Discipline and Da Lord.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.