Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

There's no rule that everyone has to change.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

Success is dependant on effort.

It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.