Year Quotes

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: ‘As one approaches the present, one is filled with a sense of hopelessness; in a year and possibly even a month,

Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.

There won’t be anyone else. I can tell you that right now. Your eyes show me that you don’t believe that just yet. Even if it takes me months or years. I’ll make you believe it so.

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff – kissing – is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it’d kill me.