For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

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.

The ego of the mind can entrap you in a web of dilution.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.