All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

To want is to have a weakness.

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions; do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.