Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Love has no Terms and Conditions

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.

I have the backbone of an eel.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

With all the travelling and performing I've been doing, it's hard to find time to practice! But seriously, I probably did most of my practicing when I was younger.

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel.

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.