Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

Praying is holy path.

Reflection and learning are lifelong processes...

I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants!

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

But every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force. Fate is unpenetrated causes.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.