An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

Lightfoot's voice is such a part of the fabric of Canada, I know it almost as well as I know my own voice.

It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out.