Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

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.

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world now lies he there And none so poor to do him reverence.

Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself

My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I’m tired.