All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Art is about emotion

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

When you have defined yourself, circumstances don’t define you – they only refine you.

When the flag is unfurled all reason is in the trumpet.

If you want to see the future, watch 8 year olds

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.

As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.