"Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have."

"Now, you think it's a coincidence that on September 11, 2001, we were struck by terrorists an evil that has at its heart the disregard of innocent human life? We who have for several decades killed no…"

"I think being ‘alternative,’ which most people think holds me back, actually helps . If I'd been an ordinary singer, I'd still be trying to get noticed in Canada. I'm an alternative in every way. I'm …"

"I’m not a lesbian. I don’t want to be either. I’ve always thought of myself as a male homosexual ... I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for transvestite and gay men becuz they seemed to me to be …"

"When you are into mathematics, you have been so high on the scale of complexity of reasoning that you are living in some kind of altered reality. You think everybody on the street is able to understan…"