The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.

Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the same time, we don't have a say. Canada is a different country. Sometimes I think of it as Finland in the Soviet era. We're totally free, but we're totally free to agree, basically. If we disagree too heartily or over too sensitive an issue, then we pay a price for that.

Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of civilization started there. And the people who live there damn well know that.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.