All good writers are weird. Proudly weird.

Grief isn't like a map you can follow. It's not a simple route with a destination. Sometimes you loop back and find yourself in the exact same place you left.

In May I keep count.Two and a half more days of school

You always admire what you really don't understand.

If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.

Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal.

What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years; where's anything of interest to people?

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.