I just try to play make-believe and pretend the world is magical and awesome as much as possible.

Any person who says their family is perfectly functional is lying.

I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'

There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.''My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes.

The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

None of this exists. All important decisions in the universe occur someplace else.

I'm a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I don't have any time to be showing anybody any bag of tricks.

Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.