Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

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.

We are who people think we are.

CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness.

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.

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

Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.