I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

In Canada I'm not dealing with people who are bringing in baggage, they just get it. But New Orleans will be a bit different. If there's a group of people who have a right to be bitter, it's the people of New Orleans.

The core of the American public, their hearts and their minds are in the right place. And that gives me hope.

Everybody's family has different values.

You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!

If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster.

If there is hell, it was modeled after junior high school.