Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

People will always choose more money over more sex.

I miss my pre-Internet brain, but that doesn't help anything. We can only go forward.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country.

Purchased experiences don't count.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.