Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

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.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Science is what you know philosophy is what you don't know.

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all.

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

My mind to me an empire is.

I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas...because we can always learn more.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.