Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Disappointment comes from ExpectationExpectation comes from intimacyIntimacy comes from common interestAnd common interest comes from friendshipSo to nurture friendship, abandon expectation

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

I can't be a pessimist, because I am alive.

Cats know not how to pardon.

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask.