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We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

It's fantastic to put your hands in the earth. I enjoy spending my time in heaven here. I don't care what you say, this is my heaven.

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.

If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.

I've seen such things as you would not believe. I've seen motorbikes driven down hotel corridors - and had a go myself.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

I'm careful, controlled, bodily conservative: if someone offered me a pill I'd only ever take a half.

I'm attending to my legacy, making sure that it travels the universe in the best shape I can get it into. For as long as I'm alive, I'll still be its interpreter.

I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.