The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have.

If love finds you again, don’t fight it. Don’t let grief hold you back. Love is a risk. There are no guarantees. But, in the end, it is always, always worth it.

I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable, Brother Zachariah to Clary Fray

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

If you can read, you don't ever have to be lonely.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed