It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

There are no more barbershop quartets wearing boaters, even though I still like them. Life goes on.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.