"If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity."

“If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.”

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.”

“I was haunted by a bear attack that happened in Algonquin Park in 1991. The problem was that I dont believe in ghosts, so that ruled out an exorcism. My other choice was to start writing.”

“I've always believed comics should bring in things like that, and they haven't for a very long time, in general. You always get people complaining, "What's it going to look like in 10 years' time?" It's ridiculous. Everything is going to age. If you try and avoid dating it, you just end up with something that doesn't mean anything.”

“Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.”

“Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.”

“I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.”