Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

Children can see the beatitudes in nature.

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.