Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.