And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

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.

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

Hillary Clinton is raising your taxes, folks. You can look at me. She's raising your taxes really high. And what that's going to do is a disaster for the country.

I dont want to write, Id rather draw.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.