“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.”

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.”

“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.”

“Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.”

“I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.”

“Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's l...”

“Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.”

“Every springI hear the thrush singingin the glowing woodshe is only passing through.His voice is deep,then he lifts it until it seemsto fall from the sky.I am thrilled.I am grateful.Then, by the en...”

“The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.”

“A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.”

“Well, I'm not a big sports fan.”

“I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.”

“Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.”