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I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past.

Giving married women an independent legal existence did not destroy heterosexual marriage. And allowing husbands and wives to construct their marriages around reciprocal duties and negotiated roles - where a wife can choose to be the main breadwinner and a husband can stay home with the children - was an immense boon to many couples.

Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.

Even if you have just half an hour, you can get a good workout. So I try to make it count no matter where I am.

I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in the Supreme Being.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

People don't see much further than their noses.

Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.

Bad memories of the past are like quicksand the more you struggle with them the deeper You Sink suffocating in the sands of time

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you've had a stroke, or you've had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn't have a stroke and cut down the costs.