My Plan Has Always Been To Return

My Mother Was Born In The City, My Dad Was An Immigrant. Probably From Germany. Could Have Been Austria, Could Have Been Poland. The Borders Were Changing. My Dad Brought Over A Large Family Of Shatners When He Was Very Young. Scraped Together The Money, Got 11 Brothers And Sisters A Passage On The Boat. There's A Lot Of Shatners In Montreal.

I Proceeded To Prove Everybody Right As To How Bad An Economics Student I Was By Failing As An Assistant Manager In Every Theatre I Went To That Hired Me, Both As An Assistant Manager And As An Actor. I Lost Money And Tickets, And I Couldn't Keep Track Of Anything. So Eventually They Fired Me From Assistant-manager Jobs, But Kept Me On As An Actor.

I Believe In Taking What Happens As Inevitable.

This Is My Saddest Story: In Grade School, They Would Have Us Open Our Valentine's Cards And Read Them Out Loud. I Always Sent Cards To Myself Because Nobody Else Did.

The Ability To Breathe The Air And Drink The Water Will Be What The Wars Will Be About From Here On In. And It's Coming With Alarming Rapidity.