Russell Smith

Wear your clothes with abandon, I say; don't keep them pristine as if for museums: They are meant to wear out. Then you get to buy new ones.

Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible.

What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.