I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

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.

No matter the disappointment, you simply cannot divorce your favorite team.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it was in New York.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.