New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age the airplane the atom bomb the radio in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Admiration of the proletariat like that of dams power stations and aeroplanes is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.