I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

When the voices of doubt start whispering, turn-up the volume of faith and listen to your heart.

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.

Whatever else is happening, things are better in the sun.

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.

If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.