If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.