The US is our trading partner, our neighbour, our ally and our friend... and sometimes we'd like to give them such a smack!

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.

I'm a pretty quiet person.

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.