For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

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.

Just leave me alone, I want to be alone, ” she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman's kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that's the case, that's good parenting.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?