Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans I've ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat.

People have every right to be offended -- but that doesn't mean they get to take away your right to offend.

Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be insid

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

I've got to play in front of people. If I'm not moved, how can they be moved.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

I have made on occasion posters and things like that for political reasons but not my work.

When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.