Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

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 don't need to be a star to be a bright and shining one to that friend in need.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And the moments when you're really present in your life can be pretty rare, really.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.