I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.

I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?

Someday, one of your friends is gonna get divorced, it's gonna happen, and they're gonna tell you. Don't go, 'ohhhh I'm sorry.' That's a stupid thing to say. First of all you're making 'em feel bad for being really happy, which isn't fair. And second of all: divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true, because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. It's really that simple.