"Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food."

"With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy."

"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."

"If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny."

"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first."

"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar."

"Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago."