It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.

Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.

Every work experience is a positive work experience, and if you're looking at it any other way I can't help you.

My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.

Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them.

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best.

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

In all things, the heart must take precedence. The heart rules over all things, and all things come from the heart.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.

I mean, if Pearl Harbor came along, you could have said the planning was wrong by the military ahead of time or maybe the battleships shouldn't have all been in the harbor and all that kind of thing.