This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

Every act intends some good.

..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating

Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.

The tragedy of being

It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have none to spare.

Find out what makes you happy and do it. If you are happy, you bring happiness for the world.

I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.

People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.