...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that.

Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

There are few, if any, Canadian men that have never spelled their name in a snow bank.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.