Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the others.

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.

Visualization is a process when we try to see the imaginative creation as a real future manifestation.

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

Obviously, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival.

Small thoughts fear the future. Big thoughts are the future.

Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.