I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

This doesn't seem like one of those 'truth will set you free' situations.

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.

Sport should be in your Blood/Veins, Not in the Joints or Bones

Our thinking makes or breaks our life, we live as we think

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.

I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.

Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.

Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers.