A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

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.

There’s an empty seat next to me in the ‘intensely aggravating’ section…and it’s got your name on it

I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.

PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

Traveling renews you.

Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.