Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

We do not merely destroy our enemies

I achieve what I plan because I plan what I can achieve.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.

Food, like the people who eat it, can be stimulated by wine or spirits. And, as with people, it can also be spoiled.

Winning a Stanley Cup for Toronto, that's the biggest dream and the biggest goal.

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.