A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

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.

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

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.

Fear leads to no where but to ground zero.

Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.

We're all in this together and we don't have much time.

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

I wouldn't want to date a pushover who would let me make all the plans and have all the control.