It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.

I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.

I feel a responsibility to get the truth out into the world.

Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

Like vichyssoise, revenge is a dish best served cold.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.