They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

All schoolchildren are hostages to red tape and fiscal insufficiency.

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.

When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

Your desire for increase is a sign that we are alive

Opposition stood in my way, but I persevered against all odds and in the process gained my freedom as well as became a man whose future is like the universe/cosmos...INFINITE

The old saying that, "you are what you eat" extends beyond the body, and includes experiences.

True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.