The Canadians have really stepped it up these Olympics. It looks very promising for Vancouver.

Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.

I'm so proud of how well Canada did at the Games here. It think we're going to do even better in 2010.

We're all doing it for the love of the sport. We want to make Canada proud. I'm so fortunate to skate in a country like Canada.

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

I don't take my clothes off in my videos

I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I wasn't going out for a business dinner.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.