I'm an old-school guy. I don't try to be too flashy.

You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day.

Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.

I've always been a goal scorer. Playing both ways is something I wanted to do coming into the league.

With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.

The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track. It's another loss. We've got to keep going, keep trying to get out of this and win on Saturday.

I wasn't putting too much emphasis on it (the booing). I think that you have to put it behind you.

Everybody is going through the same thing. The way the schedule is, it's tough down the stretch.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.

Peace lets us to be more pleasant.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

To live without loving is not really to live.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak.