As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

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.

To improve is to change

A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?

The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by ‘one-handed’ economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

American democracy has been hacked.

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.