The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.