Michael Redhill Quotes & Sayings

“I have a strange habit of walking down streets and staring up, rather than looking at shopfronts and stuff like that.”

“I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.”

“It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.”

“No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down.”

“Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.”

“Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.”

“I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me.”

“I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.”

“I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a character, about being inside another mind that you had to create out of yourself. As I moved toward a life in writing, I found many of the things I'd learned in acting school still applied.”

“I've always loved Houdini, not just because of what he did, but also because of what he stood for. He was a self-made man in a time when the idea of celebrity was still new, and he used his celebrity for good.”