Fear has a smell as Love does.

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.

Imagination is a spark of a divine light.

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.