"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."

"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life."

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

"What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life."

"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."

"Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place."

"I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems."

"The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again."