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I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.

I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species we've fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don't believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long poverty shows us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we've made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.

I studied performing arts at college and wanted to act.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on.

If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Opulence doesn't cost more than boring.

Future can alter your past too, perhaps no wise man has told this before.

Actually, I was the seventh private explorer but the first Canadian 'space clown.' I never dreamed of going into space; I just dreamed of traveling. But I admit that space is an incredible destination and the absolute traveling experience.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?