I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.

My journey is technical complexity.

My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

Leadership. More than a New York Times best seller book.

I was slightly thankful when Mom finally came out and unlocked the car. It was warm and toasty inside and it smelt like home. There was not the slightest smell of something that didn’t belong home.

There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?

Researchers have proven that scientifically, that all humans are one people

Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.