But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

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.

She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.

The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.