Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.

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.

Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom

For of those to whom much is given, much is required

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.