Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

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.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

When we deconstruct how radical evil occurs we realize that it is anything but spontaneous combustion. You need pyromaniacs.

I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

You don't know what you have until it's not there anymore.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.