People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.

You know, I'm allowed to f--king date, I haven't seen this guy in three years. We're in the middle of a divorce. For a woman, she has to wait. For a man, who cares? That's what it's painted as.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

I do have faith that something better is always coming for you.

An overflow of good converts to bad.