A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

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.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record

Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.