It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

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