There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how terrible and real their loss they choose to hug that awfulness to them rather than push it away.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

If you mind losing more than you enjoy winning, don't bet.

By ignorance the truth is known.

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.