Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

People have no tolerance. They think all bugs are bad. It's the American way. If you don't like something, kill it.

It is the American way to reward ability.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.