"Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?"

"It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it."

"Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet."

"The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment."

"The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide."

"I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental."

"The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way."

"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

"An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."