Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?