A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

In the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

I don't think too much about awards.

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

Every time I get up and sing for people, I get such a high. I just want to do it again and again.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.