The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

No one masters the heart.

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.