Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings.
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.
Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." [ (1865)]
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.
Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation.
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.
It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
You don't often get a proposal to do Tolstoy for a really interesting director - that's easy to say yes to.
I often refer to myself as a gay man and all my friends are gay and I would like nothing more than for them to be able to be married.
