A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.

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.

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.

Pray for others because others are selflessly praying for you as well.

The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

Carl Reiner particularly as a writer, a terrific writer. He's just turning out things.

Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

It was starting to smell really good in here. And if I liked what it smelled like, then they were liking what they were smelling, and ah…that would be me.

Life is only good for two things, doing mathematics and teaching it.