A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

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.

Whatever you experience is what you must feel.

Only once you believe that success is possible, then success becomes possible

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.

Being aware is a lot more than just reading a couple of news articles and talking about it on your preferred social network.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.