Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

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

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing everything perfectly. The litmus test I always use for myself is: "Okay, if you won 20 million tomorrow in the lottery would you still being doing the same thing you are doing now with your life, Dough? The answer is "yes". I'm always very conscious of that.

In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.