If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

You can parody almost anything.

I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul.

Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

It was like she had been playing 'nhodo' with her life, foolishly trying to outsmart an imaginary playmate named Fate.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

I never thought I’d say I’m so very glad you’re a rogue instead of an angel. But I suppose it’s all right as long as you’re my rogue - Rebecca -

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

You want to see women your own age in films.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.