Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

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.

Badmouthing things and other people is another way to appear smarter in front of the many.It's sad that some people use this dirty trick just to increase their self worth...

I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.

Then let me be your mercy, ” he said. “I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character.

People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.