As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

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.

It’s not called ‘falling in love’ for no reason. It’s scary! It’s like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. Or bungee-jumping without your cord attached. Or hang-gliding with only one wing.

I had to go outside. I had to let the element of chance in.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.

The most powerful hallucinogen in this planet is called Love. Highly Addictive! You will see and hear things that don't exist!

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.