The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Those who cling to life die and those who defy death live.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.