Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.

Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

All talk is lies in a way. Only the doing of a thing can make it true.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

In Hollywood, most things are based on looks, so I'd love to do something that has nothing to do with how I look.