At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

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.

You know you became a leader when people start to copy you!

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

Let my Peace which passes all understanding infill and enfold you, for when you are at Peace within, you reflect Peace without, and all those souls you meet will feel that Peace.

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

I do what interests me when I'm invited and do it as well as I know how and try to get better. That's all.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

You need to find people that are drawn to the idea that you build, and they end up taking it and making it even better.

My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.