A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

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.

Good is the enemy of great

For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies and sparkle in its brightness.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I’ll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don’t have that, you’re not taking enough risks.

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?