science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! - do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.