If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.

I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

A safe army is better than a safe border

There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

I’m trying to do better than good enough.

The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?