Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?