I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

When you're writing, your mind has a place where the stories happen. With one word, you can get the idea of where you are.

There's no way that you can stop nature.

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

It's American to be from somewhere else, and it's American to go from East to West. It's American to seek your fortune someplace other than where you are, or to be escaping something...

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

As a girl, I was always told I was nasty or dirty if I was sexual in any way. Americans are such prudes.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.