When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

Children see magic because they look for it.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

If you don't believe one person can make a difference, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

You are always new to me.

The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.