“Toronto is kind of like New York operated by the Swiss.”
“Popularity means people think they know you.”
“In our exterior life, we can only be one person. But in our imaginations, we can be anyone, anywhere. That’s one of the reasons I read and write. It’s a way for me to have more than one life.”
“In every parting there comes a moment when the beloved is already gone from us.”
“Through love we feel we are greater than we know.”
“Reality only distracts and degrades us.”
“He has created a musical language that is the acoustic door to the unknown. Like an ever ascending score that never reached to the heavens.”
“I prefer being frank with children. I’m more likely to say, ‘You must be exhausted,’ or ‘I know a lot of people who would kill for that little waistline of yours.”
“Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful.”
“There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life.”