The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.

We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.