Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.

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.

Trust has shifted from institutions to individuals.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

I am where I am because I believed and I never gave up.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.

Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.