Nobody likes having a problem, but having a convoluted, bureaucratic one is even more galling.

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

Owl love you forever

It’s not lost on me that I’m so busy recording life, I don’t have time to really live it.

There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.

There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty.

Oh my friend it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way... if it comes from the heart.

I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.

You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.