SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.